Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert L. Deane, able president of General Motors Holding Corp...
...Follette supported the Roosevelt ticket. This year the President would like to see his political friend re-elected were it not for the fact that a regular Democrat might repeat the party's triumph of two years ago. In 1932 Wisconsin elected its first Democratic Governor since 1890?Albert George Schmedeman, clothing merchant, onetime (1926-30) Mayor of Madison, onetime (1913-21) Minister to Norway...
...same time a Wisconsin Democrat named F. Ryan Duffy was elected to the Senate where he has been seen but not heard. This year Albert Schmedeman is again running for Governor as a Democrat, "Bob" La Follette is up for re-election as a Progressive, and Brother "Phil" La Follette is angling for the Progressive nomination as Governor. Should the President endorse Senator La Follette's candidacy too ardently, it would probably ruin any Democratic chance of permanently regaining a lost State. On the other hand, should Mr. Roosevelt come out too hot and heavy for Governor Schmedeman and other...
...twelve long years Northern Ireland has had the same Governor, vastly rich and mightily aristocratic Sir James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Knight of the Garter. When he moved into frowning Hillsborough Castle, bought at a cost of $230,000 to serve as the Governor's residence, the magnificence of his personal chattels outshone its splendor. The plate and oil paintings alone were supposed to be worth more than the castle. One day last week the Duke and Duchess were on vacation in England and so was the Private Secretary, Commander Henderson. Belatedly Sergeant Irvine, head...
What is this calumny I find in the usually accurate TIME [July 23] about Albert Payson Terhune? Mild-mannered, is he? Let me be the first to rush to this anything but phlegmatic gentleman's defense...