Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulation. He was only one of five candidates for the top post of Director of Aeronautics which replaced the Assistant Secretaryship for Aeronautics. Most of his rivals had red-hot political supporters working for them. But Senator Gore, his father-in-law, did not, as many supposed, lift a finger to help him. Gene Vidal was less astonished than his competitors when the final appointment came through...
...from the Hippodrome platform, following Senator Owen and famed Inflation-Senator Thomas, Father Coughlin raised his arm, wagged his finger at a hysterical crowd. Shrilly he yelled: 'Stop Roosevelt! Stop Roosevelt! Stop him from being stopped! And when Franklin Roosevelt is stopped, I imagine that I will be broadcasting from the North Pole...
...office on the twenty-second floor of Chicago's Mather Tower last week had its finger on the pulse of the U. S. churches. The pulse beat briskly. Throughout the land, ladies' aid societies, missionary circles and altar guilds were becoming "Good News Broadcasters." At the rate of 11,000 per day the ladies were signing up for a simple scheme by which they would make money for their churches just by buying, and getting other ladies to buy, certain nationally-advertised products. In full swing was the "Goodwin Plan...
...experimental subjects he had his choice of Mrs. Blair, two students. He rejected all three, picked himself. A spider bit his little finger. A sharp pain shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other...
City editors of big metropolitan dailies have to be well informed. Few have their finger tips on a wider variety of facts about contemporary people and events than Stanley Walker, brisk little city editor of New York's potent Herald Tribune. Not content with doing a first-rate job at a desk that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks...