Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working capital. The Treasury borrowed $350,000,000 on short-term certificates, most of which would be available for R. F. C. New quarters were fitted up in the old Department of Commerce building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Chairman Meyer received 2,500 letters asking for jobs, inquiring about loans. Busiest man of all was Mr. Dawes, who quickly found himself a Washington apartment. ¶Last week at the age of 37 James Rumsey Beverley of Amarillo, Tex. found himself Governor of Porto Rico by appointment of the President. On the other side of the world George Charles Butte. Vice Governor...
...Congress reassembled after holiday recess, its more thoughtful members realized that this was to be one of the busiest, most critical sessions that ever sat. The Capitol's serious air was supercharged by an unexpected special message from the President calling for immediate, non-partisan enactment of relief legislation. All the leaders were agreed to put that first thing as far as possible first. But Congress is Congress, composed of politicians. Its opening day was not without an event which contained as much politics as economics. The big story for which the Press was on the lookout during...
...places where they were created are thus historic buildings and Motorman Henry Ford has transported the inventor's oldtime laboratory whole, set it up at Dearborn, Mich. for his Edisonia Museum. Even Mr. Edison's footprints are preserved in the cement approach. In Llewellyn Park, N. J. Edison's busiest factories are. There during Wrartime he helped the U. S. develop sound submarine-detectors and chemicals for which the nation had been dependent on Germany...
...Mills was one of Washington's three busiest and most publicized men. The other two?President Hoover and Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr.?awaited him inside the air-cooled White House office. What engaged their joint attention there were the international negotiations incident to Mr. Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office...
...busiest of U. S. feminists is Dr. Woolley.* To Mt. Holyoke girls her principles (uttered firmly as she stands erect and impressive in academic gown at morning chapel) are well known. Mt. Holyokers disrespectfully pronounce them "Poise, Poipose and Poiserverance." And they know that a prime tenet of Dr. Woolley's philosophy of Feminism is this: no lady drinks intoxicants. Therefore, few of her students have ever been explicitly dropped for tippling. Before female smoking became commonplace the college had no official rule against it-it was inconceivable that a lady should smoke...