Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Credit Administration, but for over two years he has held the title of Under Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ickes hates to have anyone in his office who is not working for him. Mr. West has been at loggerheads with Mr. Ickes ever since he parked his car in the portico of the old Interior building in a space reserved for Mr. Ickes' Packards. But he is a Presidential appointee and cannot be removed. Last week Mr. Ickes did the next best thing. He removed James Rohrer, Mr. West's brother-in-law and administrative assistant, transferred...
...thing for a man holding one office to think about obtaining another office. It impairs his usefulness. It is like necking in a closed car on a moonlight night, after a good dinner and champagne. Don't start...
Cynosure of all eyes was an improvised sculptural group at the entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into...
Last week, utility and railroad stocks descended to new lows. Moody's commodity index was at 149, the New York Times' business index at 82.3 (down 21 points from a year ago). Car loadings stood at 570,000 cars, down 95,000 cars under last year's level. In Pittsburgh was held a meeting of the men whom depression hit first and hardest, the presidents of railroads. Although they offered no supporting facts, they strongly sustained each other's sentiments...
...Haven the Vagabond got up from his camp stool on the platform and went into the warm club car. He did not care for New Haven, somehow. He could read a magazine the rest of the way down...