Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week readers of the daily Press and Union of Atlantic City, N. J. perused such advertisements, noted that "the sponsors of this message" included Atlantic City Gas Co.; Freund Brothers, Opticians; Shill Rolling Chair Co.; West Side Lumber Co.; Brooks & Idler, Printers. Atlantic City citizens had seen a succession of such ads, but the author of them remained anonymous. He, the only "Go-To-Church Editor" of a U. S. daily, was Robert Earl Peifer. display advertising manager of the two newspaper...
...Senator from Kentucky will permit the present occupant of the Chair to state that he had been so informed. . . . The chair looked around. . . . None was standing but the Senator from New York. ..." The rest of that day was given to the anti-lynching bill and Senator Borah, who believes it quite unconstitutional, proceeded to take it apart at leisure, while Leader Barkley stewed. By the close of the afternoon, Alben Barkley had another maneuver ready. He moved to adjourn (instead of recessing) overnight, which would have automatically cleared the calendar for a fresh start on another bill next...
That Leader Alben Barkley, to whose desk John Nance Garner walked directly from his chair after the recess, had told the Vice President to get the Court Bill through the Senate, his confreres did not doubt last week. Even less did they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner...
Last year when John Hays Hammond died at the age of 81 in an easy chair in his showplace at Gloucester, Mass., he left an estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond...
...tear my sheepskin into a million pieces and never practice again and you can print that!" Fred Hull. 53, who had made the greatest gamble a man can make -and lost-said nothing. He is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of Sept...