Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the eleven judges who normally make a quorum of the court swished to their comfortable leather chairs, looked approvingly at the crisp new blotters, clean pens, gleaming inkwells and clear glasses of water before them, then glanced at the carefully printed memorandum of cases pending. From the register they learned that one of the next cases to which they must bend their minds was the unfortunate plight of Oscar Chinn...
...Germany's armies came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal Institute for Unemployment Insurance, promised to find the girls paying jobs at the end of the "kitchen year." Cried he: "Are young German girls, your daughters, to receive as their first impression...
...Robbins deliberately joined Kohler after cancellation to make a test case. Because Kohler never held a contract, but operated under a subcontract which became effective only two days before Mr. Farley took office, its past record is "clean." Mr. Robbins will resign to save Kohler's face, give it a chance to bid again. But to save the industry's face he is far from done with fighting Mr. Farley...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...
...three older brothers had gone respectively to West Point, Annapolis and Princeton. Bob Michelet chose vigorous, informal, outdoor Dartmouth. Even there his clean-limbed 6 ft. 1 in. and 185 Ib. caught passing eyes. Elected captain, he led the freshman football team through a hard season undefeated. In the spring he was elected president of his class, received the William S. Churchill Prize as its outstanding member...