Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Newest promotion of the National Sausage Casing Dealer's Association (heartily accepted by the Institute of American Meat Packers): the turkeyfurter, or hot turk. Its ingredients: one part smoked turkey, one part veal, one part pork, plus breadcrumbs, thyme, sage, an emulsion of turkey fat and broth, all stuffed (like brother hot dog) into sheep casings. Its economics: price 37? to 41? a Ib. in bulk (about 10? above best frankfurters), to retail at 15? each, complete with cranberry sauce and roll...
Born. To Natalie Cantor Metzger, 22, second of Eddie Cantor's five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers...
...Governor James V. Allred, now a U. S. district judge, is debarred from anti-Garner campaigning by the Hatch Act (no politicking for Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions...
...subject, How Can We Defend Democracy in America Now? and the debaters (Harold Ickes and Hugh Johnson) developed an odd sort of sparring match, with both Administration-Baiter Johnson and New-Dealer Ickes poking at the solar plexus of the Administration's war policy-its Morgan-du Pont loaded War Resources Board (soon to be disbanded). What they finally shook hands on was that the U. S. should stay out of war; what they were still making faces over at the finish was how. Sample audience heckling...