Word: barucher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Restaurant upped its 45?, 55? and 75? lunches to 50?, 60? and 85?. Overtaxed by the weight of newshawks and Representatives, a House elevator sagged down two floors, bumped to a stop in the basement. White-crested Bernard Mannes Baruch closeted himself with Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson for a long heart-to-heart. For the first time in four months, flags fluttered over the wings of the Capitol. Such phenomena, observable in Washington last week at noon on the third day of 1936, added up to the fact that the 74th Congress was in session...
...pink gown, came to $7 per slice. Only one private car was needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...
Abide With Me (by Clare Boothe Brokaw; Malcolm L. Pearson, Donald E. Baruch, A. H. Woods, producers). Up to last week the meanest, man to walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...
...intelligent, kindly, honorable, and yet so firm . . . that it is hard to suggest that, in the circumstances, there might have been a better choice than Cordell Hull. . . . But in these hard-bitten days we needed a realist. . . . We had two outstanding Democratic world figures who answered that description-Bernard Baruch and Owen Young. ... On the economic side, our foreign policy is a failure...
...seems inevitable that in the event of a European was this country will merely give up its trade in armaments but will rigidly insist upon maintaining all other commerce with the belligerent nations. With unexpected bluntness Mr. Baruch plunged his fist right through this frail platform in a candid exhortation for genuine neutrality. Speaking as one who perhaps knows more about war economy than any other man, President Wilson's head of the War Industries Board declared, "There isn't no such animal as non-war material...