Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dressed up along with 1,700 other citizens, President & Mrs. Roosevelt went out to dine in the grand banquet hall of the Mayflower Hotel. It was a testimonial dinner in honor of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. The President's personal tribute was an address in which he said: ''History . . . may even add his name to the distinguished list of major prophets. Even as the name of William Jennings Bryan sometimes suggests the arithmetic of 16 to 1, so perhaps the name of Jim Farley will suggest the more modern arithmetic of 46 to 2." Mr. Farley...
...ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...March 9, Seattle will vote whether to replace worn-out street cars by spend ing $12,500,000 for 240 trackless trolley and 135 busses built by Twin Coach Co. Last week, Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...
Baffled when he received as a contribution to the March 4 Roosevelt Victory Dinners a $1,000 check signed "Alfred M. Landon,' Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley, observed: "That does seem to make it unanimous," soon learned that the check had not been signed by the defeated GOPresidential nominee or by anyone else who had an account at the designated bank...
...Automobiles together and pays nearly $1,000,000 a day in taxes, has come back-and come back from way back. There never was such a depression in railroad history as the last one. A typical victim was the thoroughly sound Illinois Central. I. C.'s President Lawrence Aloysius Downs once revealed that after the panic of 1907, his road's revenues declined 4%. The drop from peak to valley was only 8% in the depression of the 1890's, only 20% in 1870's, only 24% after the crash of 1857. From 1929 through...