Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley, who originated the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont". On election night, as returns flashed in to indicate a Roosevelt landslide, I wrote out the crack, marked it "col and ½ 8 pt. bold face," handed it to the linotyper. It was printed in the paper of Nov. 4 and the copy for the remark, as I can prove, was stamped about 10:20 p. m. Nov. 3. JULIUS MILTON WESTHEIMER...
David Meriwether Milton, smart husband of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s daughter Abby, has been a very busy man the past fortnight. First he journeyed from Manhattan to Chicago to face sharp questioning by Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's investigating committee, which originally started out to investigate real estate bondholders' reorganizations. From Mr. Milton the committee wanted to know all about the acquisition of General American Life Insurance Co. by Southwestern Life Insurance Co. last spring (TIME, April...
...just so much Lord-in-Waiting. In her London circle she has the reputation of holding Edward VIII by her wisecracking, hard gaiety in the most adverse or intimate situations. He has carried fairly heavy pieces of her luggage in railway stations. She has called him "Boysy" to his face in brilliant London ballrooms, spoken of him to their British hostess as "the little man" when he was King and Emperor, kept him waiting two hours in her car outside her dressmaker's. When relatives of hers from the U. S. have been in town, she has taken...
...little fellow, 'to the inefficient, the Supreme Court's decision looked like the happy end of price competition. To the public it meant only one thing: higher prices. In Illinois last week face powder formerly selling as low as 63? could not be legally retailed below $1.10. Even Major Benjamin H. Namm, head of Brooklyn's big Namm department store and a loud advocate of anti-loss-leader legislation, cried in alarm: "Price-fixing as a cure for predatory price-cutting is far worse than the disease itself...
...Richfield by buying out Richfield's Eastern subsidiary. Richfield Oil Co. of New York. There followed a period in which the Doherty-Sinclair understanding awaited better days in the oil business and Richfield's able Receiver William Chester McDuffie continued to cut down annual losses in the face of excessive depreciation and depletion charges. Last spring, when Richfield was coming back to black ink for the first time since 1930, Harry Sinclair and Harry Doherty finally got together. Cities Service Co., which owned 25% of Richfield bonds, 14% of the bonds of Richfield's California subsidiary...