Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violators of Federal statutes. In 1910 these duties were increased by the passage of the Mann Act to break up the interstate traffic in women. Seven years later the War brought the tasks of espionage and counterespionage. In 1919 under the Dyer Act, Department of Justice agents began to chase across State lines automobile thieves (most of whom turned out to be joyriding youngsters). But neither in morale nor efficiency did the Bureau grow up with its expanding job. Chief qualification for a would-be investigator was a letter of recommendation from his Congressman. And under suspicious, eccentric Director William...
...joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire engines; of a Texas game warden who told him, during a long discussion of crime, chorus girls, Western cinemas and the use of cavalry in modern warfare, that in Prohibition days more game wardens than revenue agents were killed in the line of duty. Unlike So Red the Rose, which...
...President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
...drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven-car Merchandise Express...
...thirty-five years out of sheltered Cambridge, the Class of 1900 started their reunion celebrations yesterday with a luncheon for members of the Class and older sons at the Essex Country Club, while wives and younger sons lunched with Mrs. Osborne Howes and had dinner with Mrs. Philip P. Chase of Milton. Today's program includes lunch at the Business School, group attendance at the Soldiers Field exercises, and dinners at the Harvard Club and the Hotel Sheraton. Stoughton 28 will be the headquarters and scene of the spread tomorrow...