Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...docile Tammany sheep for 35 years. He began as an assistant corporation counsel, was made corporation counsel in 1920 by Mayor Hylan. was promoted to the Surrogate's bench two years later. Irish Catholic, 59, easy, affable, everybody's friend, he likes cards, the theatre, golf, wears button shoes, leads an eminently respectable private life on the upper West Side. He promptly indicated his obedience to Tammany by announcing against any wage cuts for city employes...
...Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
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...floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there was not to be found a single Republican badge, button, sign or slogan urging the selection of anyone for office. Colyumnist Heywood Broun reported: "Herbert Clark Hoover is the forgotten...
...Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match was still sound were dismayed last week when the company was granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...