Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrival in Little Rock brought a new element into the picture. Mr. Farley had wired ahead to Arkansas' Governor Carl E. Bailey and rushed off to a breakfast appointment to urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas...
...weeks ago U. A. W. announced another attempt to pass out literature at the Rouge plant but the plan was suddenly abandoned. Newshawks and photographers had risen at dawn to be on hand. When nothing happened Harry Bennett invited them in for breakfast in the Administration Building, where Ford executives lunch each day. Henry Ford had apparently decided he needed the Press on his side.* After the Battle of the Overpass, Mr. Bennett's service men had ripped notebooks from reporters' hands, confiscated films, chased one photographer for five miles until he took refuge in a police station...
...Director John Ford (The Informer), responsibility for the picture's pace, its sustained adventurous mood, its accumulation of memorable physical details; to Actors C. Aubrey Smith and Victor McLaglen the complete realization of two roles as great as any they ever played. Outstanding scenes: McLaglen getting washed for breakfast, drilling a squad, teaching boxing, playing dolls, dying in the infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book...
Bigger than the medical staff was the kitchen staff: 250 chefs in 25 big kitchen tents had the job of frying 100,000 flapjacks for breakfast, of coping with 30,000 quarts of milk, 70,000 eggs, two tons of sugar, 13,000 Ib. of meat delivered every morning and serving it more or less hot to over 800 mess tents. Telephone connections and mail deliveries to the camp sites had to be organized on a similar scale...
First wife: "He [my husband] used to come home cooked like a rare hamburger. There are no bathhouses at the mill. He'd be so choked with acid and gas fumes and soot that half the time he coughed up his breakfast...