Word: frank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green and its veteran Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison be guaranteed their salaries for life "for services rendered...
Leaving to others such national projects as Recovery, Economy, National Defense, new Attorney-General Frank Murphy has devoted his energies to cleaning up bad spots in the Department of Justice. Last week he put his finger on U. S. deputy marshals, of whom his Department employs 992 at $1,800 to $3,700 per year...
Under Homer Cummings last year, marshals and deputies were required to be fingerprinted. Seven were discovered to have criminal records. Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
...famous talent driven to the U. S. by warmaking abroad, Antonin Raymond is a bony, thin-lipped man of 50, with sunken cheeks and an ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
...ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood as technical adviser on Director Frank Capra's forthcoming Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...