Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centre of the enormous invisible web was a table in the Hamilton living room, set with microphones, wires and a glass of water. Hugo Black sat before it on a straight-backed, plush-seated dining room chair. The other guests of the Hamiltons, seated in the dining room across the hall, enjoyed a familiar view of the great man in his hour of trial. During it, there were three unprescribed noises not all of which were fully audible to the nation. Once little, Julie Hamilton, 5, came to the head of the stairs in her nightie and called "Daddy." Again...
...called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind of job to be done up to the New Deal. Last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked the man for the job. He was 49-year-old "Liberal Republican" President John D. Biggers, of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., whose "enlightened labor policies" brought him to Presidential notice. Last week, Mr. Biggers' plans for his census were complete...
...confidence in the Negrin Government and adjourned for the day. Two facts were important. Into the hall to take his seat stepped 75-year-old Manuel Portela Valladares, Premier of Spain in 1936 when the Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with him as a sign of truce between the Popular Front and Centre Right Republicans...
...intercontinental land route than any of his predecessors still needs official corroboration, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. which supplied most of his gas and oil, was delighted to tender him a banquet. Obligingly, he unscrewed a light bulb from the chandelier, smashed it to bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet of the Christ of the Andes for a blessing...
...scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks Saint's life-long labors at making his own glass (TIME, July 20, 1936) are "all hooey." Mr. Willet buys the glass he uses from English craftsmen or from William Benko of Milton, West Virginia, whom he rates as the best U. S. glassmaker. Despite this businesslike attitude and despite having produced several of the best examples of medieval stained...