Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessor-43-to-39. By this time, however, to offset its dwindling majority, the Administration bloc had found a new trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward A. Rumely who as secretary of something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government admitted that he had spent...
Since sportsmen naturally like the art they own to reflect accurately the sport they love, most of the show was almost photographic. Most popular works: the hunting and fishing oils of 76-year-old Frank W. Benson, who is said to have earned $1,000,000 from duck pictures alone; Edward Herbert Miner's Man o' War and Four of His Famous Get; the winter canvases of A. Sheldon Pennoyer, who dashes down ski slopes as easily as he dashes off brush strokes; big-game wood carvings by Blackfoot Indian John Louis Clarke (Man-Who-Talks...
...they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
Died. Helena Woolworth McCann, wife of Manhattan Lawyer Charles E. F. McCann and eldest daughter of the late 5?-&-10? store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth; after short illness; in Manhattan. A director of F. W. Woolworth Co., she helped support the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, three years ago gave to her three children more than...
...smiling at him. Not seductively, but with a fresh, frank, open face. He could smell her soft fragrance--a new-old perfume, a spoor which had not tickled his nostrils for many long moons. Yet it was hauntingly familiar, a scent from the past, an aroma of other years. The Vagabond growled to cover his interest...