Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Springfield's Midday Luncheon Club and Governor Henry Homer of Illinois decided to do an extraordinary honor to the memory of Springfield's greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln. To Governor Horner's mansion for dinner went a distinguished gathering including Secretary Ickes and Governor Talmadge. They met, shook hands, turned away. Af- terward the members and guests of the Midday Luncheon Club assembled in a high-school auditorium for a special treat. On the platform, a handsome lectern bore a large portrait of Lincoln. Out to the speakers' seats marched Governor Horner, Secretary Ickes, Governor...
...fourth time in three years, David Lamson went to court to fight for his life last week. So rare was a citizen of Santa Clara County who had not made up his mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before...
...truth but privilege was the News-Telegram's defense. Its counsel argued that a citizen attacked in one newspaper should be legally privileged to retort through another newspaper with a defense which might include a counterattack on the attacker. That seemed fair enough to the jury but the trial judge, who said he had never heard of such a defense, set the verdict aside. The News-Telegram carried an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, last month got a unanimous verdict in its favor...
...predecessor as Iron Fireman's president was killed in an airplane accident in 1928. Mr. Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman is General Sales Manager Clarence Theodore Burg, an ardent Rotarian who made all his salesmen wear flaming red neckties during Depression, urging them to preach "red tie optimism." In self-defense he has had to wear red ties himself ever since...
Nicholas Holtz was a fiend in tycoon form, but he was also a potent and respectable citizen. The unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...