Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fable popped up in the Scripps-Howard Columbus (Ohio) Citizen one day last week while the American Bar Association's House of Delegates met in Columbus' Deshler-Wallick Hotel to frame A. B. A. policies. Before the "congress" adjourned, the A. B. A.'s ethics & grievance committee was directed to investigate the action of Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint in enjoining Fisher Body workers from striking, report to the annual A. B. A. convention in September whether ethical canons had been violated because Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of General Motors stock...
...envy and entertainment of many a citizen, to the embarrassment and chagrin of a few, the House Ways & Means Committee last week opened for public inspection two fat typewritten volumes containing the names of U. S. employes receiving salaries, commissions and bonuses totaling more than $15,000 in 1935. Not to be confused with the corporate salary schedules required by the Securities & Exchange Commission, this list was compiled from income tax returns. Highest-paid individual in the land that year was William Randolph Hearst, who drew $500,000 as head of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. A close second...
...Author. In 1925 exiled Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova arrived in the U. S. with $29, no English. Now she is Lecturer in French at Barnard College, has just taken her Ph.D. at Columbia University, is a naturalized U. S. citizen. It took a revolution to arouse her interest in Chekhov. As a refugee in Paris she studied at the University, discovered Maupassant, through him, Chekhov. In the U. S. she learned English by teaching French, decided to perfect it by taking a Ph.D. Her English dissertation she rewrote four times, parts of it 50 times. Nothing daunted, she now plans...
From the effect on Congress of Mr. Roosevelt's startling message, the average citizen may have fair cause to tremble and wonder what is really happening at the White House. Probably some of the distinguished senators on Capitol Hill are also apprehensive of the President's latest scheme, and if they dare to speak at the facts behind the shrewd dialectics of the Brownlow Committee, they may find Mr. Roosevelt adding buckets of water to his basin of power. Soon the whole country must know whether the President has at last expressed his true intentions...
Gratefully Franklin Roosevelt replied to this handsome offer, most munificent ever made by a U. S. citizen to his country...