Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
...pilots are stunting over this crowd," said the President-Elect Eduardo Santos last week to War Minister Alberto Pumarejo as they stood on a brilliantly bedight reviewing stand, surrounded by Colombian dignitaries and their wives, watching a review opening Bogotá's great new military field, Campo de Marte...
When William Randolph Hearst discontinued his unprofitable Rochester Journal last year, 400 men and women lost their jobs on 24 hours' notice, the Rochester newspaper field was left to the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the evening Times-Union, both owned by restless Roosevelt-Baiter Frank Ernest Gannett. The homeless Hearstlings decided that they and Rochester could use an independent daily. This week, after a year's hunt for financial backers, the first issue of the Rochester Evening News, edited by Roosevelt-Backer David Edwin Kessler, appeared on the streets...
When Howard Robard Hughes took off from Floyd Bennett Field last week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...
...military maneuvers, apparently modeled on the greater panoramas of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Mr. Sheean's proof of the historical unimportance of the French victory is more tenuous, principally in the soliloquies of the French Foreign Minister, D'Argenson, who reflects as he leaves the field that the French aristocracy had won only with the help of "the savage exiled Irish," that there could be no real victory until "men might learn to fight for themselves instead of for the confusion and greed of those who governed them...