Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrown on the character of that issue as the Senate investigation of Republican Governor Paul Martin Pearson's administration of the Virgin Islands droned into its second week in the sweltering Senate caucus room (TIME, July 15). Appearing with a strip of adhesive tape cocked over the eye which Columnist Robert S. Allen blacked for him last fortnight, mousy-looking Paul C. Yates called up the Islands' men of God to prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced an affidavit from...
...soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore "to defend maidens, widows and orphans" and to "suffer no extortion" to be practiced which they are able to prevent...
Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...
Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...
...crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects a grain dealer for an agent...