Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holcombe went on to say, before he threw open the floor for discussion, "No political controversy, barring slavery, since Andrew Jackson declared war on the Bank of the United States, has struck so deeply into the roots of our political system." Holcombe did not believe that Justice Roberts reversed his stand on the recent Wagner Act and the Minimum Wage Act either because of the strikes, the Roosevelt landslide, or the Court bill, but sincerely believed that his change of mind was due to further study of the questions...
Fifty miles outside of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania's Ligonier Valley, are Rolling Rock Farm and Rolling Rock Country Club. Rolling Rock was originally 12,000 acres of land owned by Judge Thomas Mellon, who left it to his son Richard Beatty Mellon, brother of Andrew Mellon and onetime president of the $340,000,000 Mellon National Bank. Richard Beatty Mellon turned Rolling Rock into a loosely organized country club, whose members share the expenses of keeping up one of the best U. S. packs of English fox hounds, raising pheasants, and running the Gold Cup Steeplechase. He left...
...they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real estate boomed for several years as the city spread from Telegraph Hill to Twin Peaks with cable cars sprouting in every direction...
Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
Born 52 years ago in Winnipeg, Broker Housser made a Dominion name as a hockey star, first at Toronto's swank St. Andrew's College, later at the University of Toronto and then on Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played...