Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While President Hoover was sitting with his Cabinet one morning last week, an alarming report reached his bodyguard. Police reserves tramped into the White House grounds, deployed, guarded the gates. Pennsylvania Avenue shrieked with motorcycle sirens. Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to...
* Last week Mr. Curtis, as everyone expected, announced his decision to seek Republican renomination on the Hoover ticket next year rather than run for the Senate in Kansas. Said he: "I'm an optimist. . . ."
The exposition at the Grand Central Art Galleries did not lack for potent sponsorship. Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup. One...
Charles Curtis, Vice President of the U. S., returned to Washington from Los Angeles to decide whether to seek renomination or run for the Senate in Kansas. Asked if he had made up his mind, he roared: "No! And nobody is making this decision but me-Charlie Curtis and when...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' New York Evening Post has long been anything but robust. In the past year its circulation slipped from 102,632 (smallest in Manhattan) to 100,833. Down went its advertising lineage until only Macfadden's tabloid pornographic ranked below it.* The men at the...