Word: davids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Messrs. Green & Lewis be barred from any office, reserving the presidency for a railway brother like Trainman A. F. Whitney or Engineman David Brown Robertson...
...suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...grand jury returned indictments against twelve living Democrats, one dead (Warren Van Dyke) for assorted skulduggeries including payroll padding, coercing employes for political contributions, conspiracy to control the bonding of highway contracts. Among the 13: Governor Earle's Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman who is out on bail on a previous indictment in connection with a gravel scandal; his Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore; his Secretary of Highways, Roy E. Brownmiller...
...Sultan; a guinea pig named Winnie-the-Pooh; two garter snakes, Becky Sharp and Thackeray; two four-and five-foot pilot black snakes, Pythagoras and Snookie; an adolescent alligator, John Lewis; Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's mother and two bubbling, healthy children, Son David (now at Cambridge) and Daughter Kathleen (an Olympic-team fencer...
...route to Hollywood to make his first U. S. picture for Producer David Selznick, pudgy British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes) stopped off to lecture Yale drama students in cinemanufacture. Excerpt: "Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or 'whodunit' picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible...