Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as the Black Committee resumed its scratching in the Power lobby's backyard, after a six-month layoff, discovery of the Committee's interim activities roused a mighty howl throughout the land, which showed that many & many a citizen still regarded his privacy as something more than a "fiction." Backed up by court action, it promised to result in a showdown on the headline-making power of Congress to probe the affairs of private citizens at will...
Since 1932 Mrs. Rockefeller's chief interest has been within rifle shot of the same window. The Museum of Modern Art is housed in a handsome limestone house in West 53rd Street with a back door facing the Rockefeller backyard...
...volumes in 1915-16). To a generation that had revolted against the superficial optimism, the stock poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than an expression of honest and fruitful defiance. They seemed to prove that the common stuff of U. S. backyard existence, the daily labors, the aspirations, even the graceless material of small-town gossip and slander, could be woven into a poetic pattern that need not lack dignity and significance...
Horace H. Rackham, a small Detroit lawyer, owed his entire fortune to one lucky step, taken when he was 45. From his front porch in 1903 he could hear a gasoline engine sputtering in the backyard of his neighbor, Henry Ford. Hesitantly Lawyer Rackham mortgaged his property, invested $5,000 in the new Ford Motor Co. In 1919, after receiving $4,000,000 in dividends, he sold out to Henry & Edsel Ford for $12,500,000. Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career...
...There's enough dirt to keep 20 committees busy!" glowed Chairman Hugo Black of the Senate Lobby investigating committee as he resumed his scratching in the Power lobby's backyard last week...