Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of last week the busiest thoroughfare in Washington was a small private corridor leading from a White House side door to the President's office. In that office sat a man whom the Supreme Court had stunned to silence with its annihilation of NRA. Down that corridor marched huffy Hugh S. Johnson who for a twelvemonth was NRA personified; sickish Donald Richberg and sheepish Solicitor General Reed whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman...
...nothing to the Philistine are the May Festivals more intriguing than in the boxes and the Audience. Last night these themes of and corridor and foyer were paramount to the carnal-minded devotee of these two yearly events...
Reported the New York Times: "During a recess of the Mellon case being heard before the Board of Tax Appeals, John V. W. Reynders of New York, one of Mr. Mellon's chief advisers, overtook Andrew W. Mellon in a corridor outside the courtroom and was heard to whisper what sounded like, 'Lend me a nickel, Andy.' Anyway he got the nickel and disappeared into a telephone booth...
...world last week than headlines blossomed with potent questions. Who would succeed the old Marshal? He had been friendly to Germany, would Poland now swing back to France? Would Adolf Hitler seize on the next few months of indecision for a desperate try to regain the Polish Corridor? Would Pianist Ignace Paderewski come out of political oblivion? Would Foreign Minister Josef Beck be next Dictator of Poland? It was far too soon for any man to know the answer to any of these but one thing was certain. For the next few months at least Poland will...
...acre plant; Hayden ("Bill"), 33, secretary. They keep their employes happy with beauty contests and sweepstakes on monthly sales. Last summer Brother Fred ordered beer served to every employe every day of the week. Even the office boys call him by his first name, sometimes pursuing him down a corridor yelling: "Hey, Fred. I've got an idea." He reciprocates the familiarity with practical jokes like clipping the corners from paper cups at water coolers. The Brothers Mills say they cannot remember any time when their company lost money...