Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court do not, by tradition, hobnob with the President of the U. S. William Orville ("Bill") Douglas is different. He is only 40; had never been any kind of judge; until only six weeks ago, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of SEC. Last week end he cruised with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions...
...Costello, 36. † Last month the New York Legislature (Republicans) made a lump cut of $30,000,000 (about 10%) applicable throughout the Budget submitted by Governor Lehman, who last week, on the advice of his Attorney General, decided to let the measure become law, test its constitutionality in court...
...quarter the duties & penalties assessed by the U. S. The U. S. Attorney's office refused to identify Mary, but said she was not the accused's maid, as was the case in the arrest of Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of a New York Supreme Court judge, who went into detention for a three-month term last month. Mrs. Lauer's maid got about $10,000 for informing...
...lords in waiting, grooms in waiting, gentlemen ushers, pages of honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased the number of the King's retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel for his soul, some 40 medical specialists for his body...
...bomb hit 60 feet from the Associated Press building. One crashed through the roof of the British Embassy & Consulate. Another fell on the tennis court, killed 20 Chinese. The Canadian-French mission was demolished, the mangled body of a Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife...