Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull sat dejected, slumped in his chair. But Franklin Roosevelt, taking this final wallop in his Neutrality fight, was more resilient. He informed the Senators that he would carry the issue to the People. (Senator Borah growled that, all right, the People should hear the other side, too.) He got the Senators to agree that full responsibility for failure to change the Neutrality law now should rest with them, and that Neutrality shall be the first order of business on their calendar next session. Taking pen & paper, he scratched off a statement reiterating that he and the Secretary...
Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read the invocation, then sat on the platform, one chair removed from Lewis, who key-noted the threatened strike. The good Bishop realized well that in actively applying a Papal Encyclical to a labor dispute he was making not only Chicago, but U. S. history...
...groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
...curtain had well risen. At the first motion (to dispense with the reading of the minutes) Mr. Hardy sent his tellers among the stockholders to collect ballots on the motion. When all were in, Charlie Hardy, without so much as a glance at Oscar Cintas, rasped that the chair represented a majority of the stock, announced the minutes would not be read...
Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time...