Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 1. . . . Rainbow Room incident. I was seated at dais, talking to lady. Wedemar came to table and saluted me with, "Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election...
...inaugural Conference in Vienna in 1930 the Associated Country Women of the World attracted about 300 delegates. Conference No. 2 drew no more to Stockholm in 1933. A ringing tribute to the gregarious quality of U. S. Womanhood was Conference No. 3 in Washington last week. Some 7,000 women, 18 to 80, arrived by bus, car and rail from all parts of the nation. To give the affair an international tone, there were also women from Ceylon, Rhodesia, Latvia, 19 other countries, who joined this largest female host ever to descend on Washington. For five days at Constitution Hall...
Three eminent Democrats held a premature political convention of their own last week in the letters columns of the New York Times, where they were certain of getting a wider audience than they could enjoy at Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served...
...welcomers rushed to Waterloo Station. Among them were Chinese, Hindus, Arabs and Negroes, cheek by jowl with English of every class, including pink-cheeked gentlemen in high silk hats and ladies, some of whom waved simultaneously the British and Ethiopian flags as the private Pullman car of Haile Selassie drew...
...miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...