Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First rebuttal came from the Journal's Promotion Editor Wallace W. ("Brownie") Rowland, who had worked on the paper 40 years, once had charge of the carrier pigeons used to carry spot news copy. Mr. Rowland, who received $25,000 in Mrs. Nieman's will, said he had seen Mrs. Nieman do only a "little drinking," that her extreme household thrift was for the "benefit of the help." Questioned as to why Mrs. Nieman passed over Wisconsin colleges to make a big gift to Harvard, Mr. Rowland averred that Mrs. Nieman simply "did not like Marquette," and that...
...sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers, one aircraft carrier, four submarines and an assortment of minor craft. Munitions. Nine hundred private plants have been inspected, 400 of them most carefully. Within a few days most of these will receive contracts for making machine tools and gauges, necessary before any large-scale munitions program can be undertaken. Air Force. Within...
...aircraft carrier...
...Chicago. The Tribune has supported Mayor Kelly, was rewarded when the city changed its clocks to Eastern Standard Time to give the morning Tribune a circulation advantage over the evening News (TIME, March 9 et ante). The Tribune backed Dr. Bundesen and when Kelly said Horner was a hod carrier, the News published a cartoon of the Governor showering bricks on the Mayor...
...only claim to attention is Mr. Pichel's sinister smile, which remains upon his face as if carved there, from the first reel to the last, giving to an otherwise somewhat episodic narrative a comforting if not entirely reasonable continuity. Typical shot: Pichel, as he smiles, patting a carrier pigeon which he calls...