Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despite the indispensability of his office and the real opportunities of the chair which he occupies, a baby dean's lot, like the policeman's in "The Pirates of Penzance", is not always an happy one. As in minor positions in the Government, the job of administering the daily routine of the college often tends to bog down in bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with...
...Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
...TIME, April 12). One of the Lincoln family's few precious objects which had not already been given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever painted. In her will, Mrs. Lincoln provided that the picture should remain in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham, during...
...defense of their company's founder rushed many another Bethlehem stockholder. A little man named Souermundt leaped from his chair, snatched off his spectacles and shrilled: "My nose has been punched before but I'm always ready for a fight! Punch him on the snoot, Mr. Schwab! Punch him on the snoot...
...When Walter Jodok Kohler was elected Governor of Wisconsin for the 1929-30 term one slogan popularized by his admirers was: "From a laborer's job at $1.25 a day to the Governor's chair." Walter Kohler went to work in the foundry of his father's Sheboygan, Wis. plumbing goods factory at 15. He became president of Kohler Co. in 1905 at 30, has been its active head since. Last week Mr. Kohler, 62, upped himself to the chairmanship, made Brother Herbert Vollrath Kohler his successor. Elected Kohler directors were two sons of Walter Kohler: Robert...