Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drys throughout the land last week were on the alert for any change of policy incident to the transfer. They thought they detected a suggestion of some such shift in a statement by Attorney General Mitchell which seemed to echo the recommendations of George Woodward Wickersham, Chairman of the National Law Enforcement Commission, for a more marked division of enforcement responsibility between the states and the U. S. Said Mr. Mitchell...
...which Ambassador Frederic Moseley Sackett was to deliver at the World Power Conference (see p. 54). The Ambassador was in Paris at the time. Upon his return to Berlin one of his first callers was a stocky, white-headed gentleman with ruddy cheeks and a piercing eye which any alert Chicagoan would instantly have recognized as belonging to Samuel Insull, public utility primate of the Midwest (and Maine). Mr. Insull had come (the United Press discovered) to see the Ambassador about the Ambassador's proposed power speech. Mr. Insull had read the speech. He did not approve certain parts...
...Silly and Worse." Senator Johnson, alert, tripped Secretary Stimson on one of the precedents he had quoted by showing that President Washington in 1796 withheld the Jay Treaty papers not from the Senate but from the House of Representatives. Declared Senator Johnson of Secretary Stimson: "It is silly and worse for an individual to contend that he can put into the public record a part of the correspondence bearing on the Treaty and then, holding up his hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with...
...bucket shop" gambling (TIME, May 19). He seemed nice lion-bait, so the room was packed with spectators, including Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who accused the Methodist Board of lobbying, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who regarded the scene through alert lorgnette...
...Alert Baltimoreans, anxious to establish their city's claims to industrial importance, point not to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, their old and most famed company, but focus attention on new industries lately settled in Baltimore. Outstanding among these are Glenn L. Martin (aviation) Co., now building a 1,O42-acre factory and airport near the harbor, Western Electric Co., building a $24,000,000 generating plant. Others are Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., whose Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner...