Word: daniele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corrupt Democratic regime which had ridden it since 1921. Into the mayor's office marched a silver-haired bigboy named Thomas Frank Hayes, a Democrat of good family and much property who had made a name for himself in the Legislature. With him marched his friends Daniel J. Leary as comptroller and Thomas P. Kelly as executive secretary. They got a new "strong mayor" charter for the city instead of a city-manager plan, which had nearly been adopted. Taxes went up, relief necessitated a $2,000,000 bond issue, but the books of Mayor Hayes & Co. looked fine...
...Michael O'Daniel, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, did not wait for a contest, went to Hollywood last fortnight, landed a Paramount contract (TIME, Aug. 14). His Pappy has still not decided whether to let him take...
...largest groups of private mansions in New England. Through these fine houses from the Revolution to the present have passed nearly all the famed social arbiters and artists of U. S. history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander Healy produced a famous likeness of Mrs. August Belmont. While John Singer Sargent had a whack at several bigwigs of a later day, and contemporary painters filled in the gaps...
...Hollywood went Michael O'Daniel, 19, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, to make his fortune with his face. After a screen test he was offered a contract by Paramount, went home in high feather to get his pappy's consent...
Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...