Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Miss Sally Bright, a deputy U. S. marshal at Raleigh, had a safe and simple chore to do at North Carolina's Central Prison. She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington...
Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
...were rated on a level with barbers (a trade they often combined with theirs). But no one last week could have so mistaken their social standing. Neat, spry and greying, the American College of Surgeons wandered among the palms of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel surveying wall-racks steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber bellows for warming frozen toes. Among the most popular of the commercial exhibits was the table of urological tubes and periscopes shown by C. R. Bard, Inc. of Manhattan. Over...
...apparel class alone the U. S. produces only 70% of its consumption, had to import 94,000,000 lbs. in 1937. With the chief suppliers, Australia and New Zealand (1937 aggregate, 51,000,000 lbs.), now out of the market, wool producers today can see bright days ahead...
...tempestuous, highbrowed Jay Catherwood Hormel, president of meat-packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...