Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the other Senator from Michigan? The slender, slightly stooped man of 75, with snow-white hair and academic features? The venerable schoolteacher who beat out Henry Ford as Michigan's "favorite son" at the National Democratic Convention four years ago? He joined his colleague on the front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected "good gray governor" of Michigan (1913-16) and first Democrat to be sent to the Senate from that State in 70 years?quietly, unostentatiously died of pneumonia...
Into the House, where gentlemen were delivering themselves of opinions on the pared-down Naval Building Bill, strolled Curtis Dwight Wilbur, towering Secretary of the Navy. With a smile here, a nod there, he took his amiable way to a seat in the front row of the chamber...
Secretary Wilbur gulped and twisted in his front row seat. He looked around the House in pained astonishment. Representative Abernathy put out to give help. "The rules of this House provide the privileges of the floor to members of the Cabinet," he said. Mr. Wilbur seemed relieved, until Mr. Abernathy continued unkindly, "I am not a special admirer of the Secretary of the Navy...
...first time in history, without the feverish stimulus of war, airplane factories are buzzing, lathes are churning, propellers are spinning. Safely ensconced behind the spectacular flights that jostle one another on the front pages of the newspapers, the airplane industry is humming with orders. The common people are taking...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...