Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...knew you were a gentleman." Just before the Steel Mediation Board adjourned Tom Girdler hurried off to Washington to testify before the Senate Post Offices Committee on C.I.O. interference with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from...
...that he had only quoted a New Dealer. Apparently what roiled the steelmaster most was the way President Roosevelt had thanked him a fortnight ago after Mr. Girdler agreed to cooperate with the Mediation Board. According to Mr. Girdler, the President said to him: "I knew you were a gentleman...
...Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...