Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Benedict Fehr, 78, custodian of the Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle; in Salt Lake City. For 34 years he proudly demonstrated the Tabernacle's famed acoustics to 30,000,000 visitors by dropping a pin over a balcony railing, whispering scriptural lines until the pin resounded on the floor below...
Administration of the Robinson-Patman Act is in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, custodian of the Clayton Act which the new law amends.* Hampered by lack of funds, the Commission has been desperately trying to set up administrative machinery for a measure which conceivably might require an NRA staff to enforce it. Not until last week did the Commission get around to cracking down on five corporations in three complaints affecting two homely commodities...
...unit was formed in 1906 prospered swiftly with the expanding U. S. motor industry. By the time it fell into the clutches of the Alien Property Custodian in 1917 it was an exceedingly valuable piece of property with a plant of its own in Springfield, Mass. For nearly a decade the U. S. company was in almost continuous litigation arising in part from the unsavory record of the Alien Property Custodian's office, in part from the re-entry of Robert Bosch into the U. S. market under his own name after the War. Legal question...
...offices have parted. Miss Spidell, for the Houses, has a new little cubbyhole tucked away in the Dean's office upstairs. Into her old quarters has moved Miss Butcher, quiet custodian of personnel records, while the ever-expanding Employment Agency crowds across the hall on the ground floor into her former room...
...unionist, one of the twelve A. F. of L. vice presidents who firmly opposed their Committee for Industrial Organization. Almost overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give it a New Deal flavor, they invited in as president George L. Berry, custodian of the Blue Eagle's bones. That the sole objective of the Non-Partisan League was to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt should, Messrs. Lewis, Hillman & Berry declared, "be sufficiently clear to anyone...