Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...
...with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave his smooth-breathing charge, go back to the caboose, snatch eight hours' sleep. Now 65, Foreman Forsythe began with the Frisco at 14, was a "hoghead" (engineer) for 41 years...
...that a few worthy persons might "learn one thing every day," William David Moffat, onetime Scribner executive, in 1912 gathered a group of learned men about him to dispense information. He called the group the Mentor Association and the dispensing medium, then hardly more than a pamphlet, The Mentor. In the group were such specialists as the late great Luther Burbank (plants), Augustus Thomas (plays), Daniel Carter Beard (outdoor life), Roger M. Babson (figures), Fritz Kreisler (music). Like its organizers, The Mentor itself was a specialist, devoted each issue to a single topic...