Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan. It was the "47th, 48th & 49th Fiscal Meetings and First Bicentennial Hard Times Party'' of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, a thriving, purposeless organization of men who at some time or other manned the pump-handle of an organ. Last week's meeting was typical of most (there have...
Such (with the customary split infinitive) was President Hoover's answer last week to the 47th deficit in U. S. fiscal history, estimated at $800,000,000 by June 30.* His statement was designed to reassure Business & Industry and to ease the prospective popular pressure on Congress at its next session for additional relief funds for this, that & the other. The President was going to rely upon short-term borrowings to keep the Government going until better times. This policy has the support of all regular Republicans who are well aware that any tax-upping next winter would...
...Manhattan, it became known that Senora Michaela Romero and her 21-year-old daughter have lived for five years in a West 47th Street hotel, have seen no one, received no messages or telephone calls. Their meals are left outside the door of their suite; their bills are paid from Cuba out of their large fortune. Seven years ago a son died. Five years ago they believed he had sent them messages from the spirit world. Soon the father, Jose Cainas Romero, died, promising he too would send messages. These they await...
...30th anniversary of King Vittorio Emanuele's reign, celebrated last week at Rome, and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's 47th birthday, enthusiastically observed at Milan, was chosen by the Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...
...best explains how "Judaism can, without impairing its integrity, best adjust itself to and influence modern life." Those who wish to compete must send their theories in the form of an essay (between 15,000 and 100,000 words) to the Julius Rosenwald Essay Contest, No. 71 W. 47th St., New York City. Included must be an outline and summary of the essay, complete bibliography and index. No previously published material will be accepted. Copyright and publishing rights are reserved by Mr. Rosenwald's committee. Closing date is March...