Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Allied acquisition last week was Edgar Selden Bloom, longtime president of the $281,000,000 A. T. & T. subsidiary Western Electric (which makes 80-90% of all U. S. telephone equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U. S. businessman as purchasing agent. Though his hair is not white, Mr. Bloom last week turned 65 (Western Electric's retirement age), announced he would retire Dec. 31* and take the British Commission's job as Director of Purchases...
First rescuer to arrive when Mrs. Johnson's plight was duly blazoned forth to the nation was not a feminist but Congressman Sol Bloom of New York. He had the heat turned on in her studio, food brought in, eviction proceedings stopped. Mrs. Johnson, whose onetime husband changed his name from Jenkins to Johnson as a wedding present to her, graciously accepted his aid. Other offers of help poured in, headed by $1,000 from a "nameless registered nurse." Heartened, the indomitable Mrs. Johnson made a promise. "I'm good for another 20 years. I'll continue...
From all over the U. S. echoes of protest rolled back to Hyde Park on the Hudson. No, said Senators Borah, Clark, Johnson, Wheeler, Minton, Schwellenbach, Pepper, Byrd, McNary, Taft, Nye; no, said the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. No, said Congressmen Bloom, Coffee of Washington, along with the Keep America out of War Congress, the National Maritime Union, and Columnists Krock, Denny, Flynn, Thompson, et al. No, said that old Border Statesman Cordell Hull of Pickett County, Tenn., Secretary of State through the 2,445 days of the first two administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman won a dollar. He had bet that Representative Bloom would get the pen that signed the paper that lifted the embargo...
...troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...