Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When...
...Although it takes 15,000 to 25,000 cu. ft. of natural gas to do the work of one ton of coal, according to George I. Rhodes, gas engineer of the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, gas has already supplanted 10% of the 475,000,000 tons of bituminous coal annually mined...
...preach the American renaissance. But a Museum, a repository of the Muses, that was lacking. Last week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art. Herbert Clark Hoover did not come but even he sent a message...
Martha Fall, granddaughter of imprisoned onetime Secretary of Interior Albert Bacon Fall, rejected a cinema contract (proffered because schoolmates had voted her "most beautiful"), got a job as reporter on the El Paso Herald-Post...
...Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt marriage. Here and there are footnoted a few "confidential sources" but none of large historical importance...