Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference with a new Ambassador to the Soviet Union (see col. 2), appointing a new Assistant Secretary of the Navy (see p. 12), accepting the resignation of the Under Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12), approving arrangements for his reinaugural parade and plans for a reviewing stand modeled on Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, preparing a statement urging industry to employ more men, particularly men over 40. authorizing the U. S.-owned Alaska Railroad to charter ships so that Alaska should not starve during the continued West Coast shipping strike...
...Leaders & Old. In the midst of the seamen's strike, nobody concerned knew the whereabouts of Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union and for some 40 years the traditional leader of seagoing labor. The 82-year-oldster was said to have been in a sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts...
Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same...
...young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later by a merging of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies, it did not follow the lead...
...show as it stands is very high second rate amusement. In this hour when political frenzy has only just ceased to run rampant, the turbulent election of Andrew, Jackson comes as a welcome reminiscence. Even more acceptable, however, to us thin-blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career...