Word: custodians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan had been picked to take charge of the White House telephone switchboard. Mr. Roosevelt was "delighted" with the set-up for the Inaugural, as revealed by the first official copy...
...During the Harding Administration Thomas Woodnut Miller, Alien Property Custodian, was on the fringe of the "Ohio Gang." As the liquidated assets of American Metals Co., seized during the War, he paid $6,453,979 to a German capitalist named Richard Merton representing a Swiss concern. As his "fee" Merton turned $441,000 in Liberty Bonds over to G. O. Politicians. Of this sum $50,000 was traced to Miller who claimed he received it as payment of a debt the party owed him. Other amounts went to Jesse Smith. Attorney General Harry Daugherty's henchman, and to Connecticut...
Other changes included a shift of the independent Alien Property Custodian to the Department of Justice, Agriculture's Weather Bureau to the Commerce Department, and Labor's immigration border patrol to the Treasury's Coast Guard...
...broad-faced Oriental sea dog with quarter-deck manners and a likeable grin brought Japan's naval disarmament plan to Geneva last week. The plan as explained by its cheerful custodian, Vice-Admiral Osami Nagano, is crisp, direct, simple and quite as much a credit to its authors as other plans thus far presented at the Conference. Ticking off its points on his knobby fingers, Admiral Nagano said that Japan asks...
Rockefeller Foundation, past president of the A. M. A. Chairman of the executive committee has been Yale's Professor of Public Health, Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow. For custodian of the $1,000,000 the committee organizers chose President Winthrop Williams Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, charitarian brother-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. They picked Economist Harry Haskell Moore, to direct the study...