Word: broom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wichita, Kan. is famed for stockyards, broom factories, oil refineries, Quakers. Lately it has been calling itself "aviation capital of the U. S." having forty-seven aeronautical enterprises in or near it. In the past fortnight Wichita has become indebted for further prominence to Max and Louis Levand, co-publishers (with their brother John as circulation manager) of the Wichita Beacon, formerly owned by Senator Henry Justin Allen...
Author Matthew Josephson, critic, poet, biographer, is one of the younger-left-wing literary figures. Onetime associate editor of Broom (onetime esoteric occasional published abroad), he is now U. S. correspondent for transition (TIME, Feb. 17). Hard of hearing, with large, gazelle-like eyes, he wears a mustache, parts his hair in the middle. Last February Critic Josephson planned to take his wife and two small sons to Europe; the night be fore the Bremen sailed the Josephson's Manhattan apartment caught fire. Josephson saved his family, tried to save a favorite picture by Artist Charles Sheeler, was badly...
...When in 1919 and 1920 Prohibition was a 'new broom, it swept clean.' Since then we went backward for a time . . . but at no time to where we started. . . . We seem now to be passing through Prohibition at Its Worst. . . . The liquor problem, like the race problem, is an insoluble problem and will remain so for at least a generation. . . . All the evils of Prohibition claimed by the Wets exist. . . . But what is their program for coping with these evils? Virtually they have none, because they have so many and none of them practicable...
Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
...with three different dogs, strangely enough such has never been the case. The only other three-time winners were William Ziegler Jr. of Manhattan and Louis Lee Haggin (nephew of Artist Ben AH Haggin), Owner Ziegler in each case with Mary Montrose (1917, 1919, 1920), Owner Haggin with Becky Broom Hill...