Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring Administrator Stewart McDonald of FHA, longtime St. Louis friend of Jerry Lambert, telephoned him at his estate in Princeton, N. J., asked him down to Washington to help on Housing. Inventor Lambert knew nothing of that subject but went anyway, studied under FHA's experts. Within three months he had invented something and was building it at Princeton with $30,000 of his own money...
Brunette Katherine Moog, who runs a nursing home for convalescents in Manhattan, identified herself as a friend and traveling companion of slick Dr. Ignatz Griebl, supposedly a key member of the gang. Beauteous Miss Moog related that she ran into Dr. Griebl on a Germany-bound ship in 1937. She proceeded with him to Berlin and there was introduced to Lieutenant Commanders Udo von Bonin and Hermann Menzel of the German War Ministry...
...What most worries the Man on the Street," replied my friend, "is a car coming around the corner. There are more women running for office than ever before. Feminism has grown a beard. Their slogan is, Put All the Males in the Post Office...
...raucously indefatigable practical joker (he once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...
...fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than experience, a few skilled men like Malraux's friend Abel Guidez, who brought down six Fascist planes in the early weeks of the war, was eventually shot down near Bilbao after he had left the air force and was flying a French commercial-line passenger plane. Intense and nervous, with limited flying experience himself, Malraux made 65 flights over...