Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice president and general manager is running the annual U. S. Automobile Show. Last week Impresario Reeves was up to his fenders in work preparing Manhattan's hulking Grand Central Palace for the opening this week of the 38th show...
...international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's earlier troubles was heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves in the V. F. W. spotlight. Their listeners were attentive, their pictures in demand for the convention's timely slogan was: PEACE FOR AMERICA...
...Telephoned Mrs. Landon at Estes Park, Colo, to offer congratulations on her 38th birthday...
Last July he went to Washington as representative of several Western utilities who were trying to balk the Public Utility Act. He spied a comfortable little house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several...
Continuing his testimony before the Senate Committee, Lobbyist Smith revealed that during August 1935, three Senators and 50 Representatives had attended his Georgetown parties. Thereupon his onetime guests began to stampede before the Senate committee to explain and extenuate their presence at the 38th Street house. Montana's Senator James E. Murray admitted he was "laboring under the delusion that Smith was a Congressman." Washington's Representative Martin Smith woefully complained: "I certainly hope we'll do something to curb the activities of these lobbyists. There ought to be some way of identifying them." Utah...