Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Dec. n: "Charles Francis Potter suggested to The First Humanist Society of Manhattan that 'lynching' be changed to 'Rolphing...
...Dec. 18 issue you twice used the word ''rolphing" to designate what formerly was called lynching. I appreciate your prompt adoption of my suggestion...
...string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because newshawks and cameramen flocked about her, Mrs. Volz's employer dismissed...
...sending them all away happy whether or not they got what they wanted. Last week U. S. Steel acquired his future services. On April 1 he will become vice chairman of Steel's Finance Committee filling the post vacated by the promotion of William J. Filbert (TIME, Dec. n). Steel permits its executives to retire at 65, pensions them off at 70. Nobody knows the exact age of bald, mysterious Mr. Filbert, master of so many columns of figures, but it is a fact of record that he got his first job with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 52 years...
...fourth John Jacob Astor (Titanic victim) and of Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor Dick Fiermonte; and Eileen S. S. Gillespie. Manhattan debutante. Heir to $3,000,000 last August when he reached his majority, young John Jacob three weeks ago became the stepson of his onetime boxing instructor (TIME, Dec...