Word: blueing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week another White House rule against pests became operative. Prof. Henry Flury, President of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, wrote President Hoover protesting his failure to receive a N. A. O. B. L. delegation (TIME, Aug. 19). Dr. Flury had released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President...
William Loren Tallman, 23, 6 ft., black hair, blue eyes, for the murder last June of Mrs. Virginia Patty, broker's wife, found beaten to death with a brick in Tallman's apartment. Reward...
Walther Gruhl, 32, 5 ft. 8 in., 150 lb., brown hair, blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, wanted for the same robberies as Stevenson...
Kansas City. Sam Stine, 24, 5 ft. 7 in., chestnut hair, blue eyes, wanted for the robbery of Home Trust Co. and the murder of Policeman James Smith during the Republican National Convention last year...
...Like a blue cockchafer crawling onto a floating chip of wood, Naval Lieutenant Alfred J. William's Schneider Cup mono-seaplane Mercury floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge. Lieutenant Williams, swiftest U. S. straightaway flyer since he won the 1923 Pulitzer speed trophy at St. Louis by flying 266.6 m. p. h., built the Mercury from his own specifications. The Navy could not afford the building costs. So friends supplied him the needed $175,000. The navy gave him factory facilities...