Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that...
...Vice President and Chief Engineer Oscar Byron Hanson appeared last month before the FCC monopoly investigators, read a 91-page statement. In his lapel he wore a black spherical button marked with the number 8 in white. When he left the stand, he gave the button to the next witness, who pinned it to his lapel, passed it on to his successor. Last week, when the hearings recessed, the button returned to Manhattan. Last man to wear it on the stand was NBC's Vice President William S. Hedges. When it appeared in his lapel, FCCuriosity boiled over. Commissioner...
Witness Hedges gave him a good look at the button. But he did not explain that it is the badge of the 8-Ball Club, organized years ago "by a group of the dog-house boys for their mutual protection against the pitfalls in life." Members include NBC-RCA engineers, salesmen, sales managers-people who consider themselves most frequently behind the 8-ball...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Party will hold its annual conclave on the steps of Widenor this evening at umpty o'clock. The Grand Potentate from New York with the little round button on top will be present to add tone to the festivities...
...catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...