Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appeals, they got them last week when Justice Roberts' majority decision held that "to recite the contents of the message in testimony before a court is to divulge the message," that the Act applied to "Federal officers as well as others." Justices Sutherland and McReynolds, who in 1928 (along with Justices Taft, Sanford and Van Devanter) upheld it, again dissented, snorted that their colleagues were losing "all sense of proportion." To the confusion of observers Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, who in 1935 as a Senatorial investigator blatantly commandeered the telegraph messages of William Randolph Hearst and others, voted against...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...
...guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along with such editorial problems as deciding how much space strikes should take up in community histories, directors were also handicapped by the desertion of their best writers for other jobs; writers were hampered by the possibility that the project would be curtailed, or that the sale of a story would drop them...
...Europa, after a fortnight in the U. S. so modestly spent that none but intimates knew she was in the country, sailed Titian-haired Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, Hungarian beauty, talented musician, crack shot, friend of half of Europe's great. Along with Italy's Queen Elena, she bears the distinction of having been personally decorated by Adolf Hitler...
...long been known that the Marshall Field retail business lost money only once, in 1932, that what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...