Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...will be cast along the lines of Author John Steinbeck's best-selling novel, The Grapes of Wrath (TIME, April 17). The persecution of Westward-wandering "Okies"* by California cops, sheriffs, labor contractors and such organizations as the Associated Farmers will be staged by expert Directors La Follette, Elbert Thomas of Utah and a third Senator to be appointed...
...phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries as J. P. Morgan and the late Judge Elbert H. Gary...
...Seven-months-old Elbert Coplen Jr. demoralized his associates by learning to talk on the set, caused one expensive retake when he uttered his first word. "Polly," another when he cut four teeth amidscenes...
Looming in their way was Utah's solemn Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice...