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...boats. Fact: Cord's bids were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew...
...agitator, that she should go to Greenwich Village and Learn to Live. She leaves her home among the coalfields and does as he suggests. In Greenwich Village she meets a poet, a painter and a dancer, all Growl's friends and all, like him, incompetent and insincere. True Merrill's only worthy admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel...
...first three mornings I went, coming out each time inspired and glad within. But now I pull down the shades when I come into my room. At every one who mentions the word "chapel," I make a fierce noise, somewhat resembling the growl of a baited bear. I am no longer myself. My soul, I fear, is lost...
...travels President Hoover heard a discontented country's growl. He was booed in Detroit, Philadelphia and Salt Lake City. Hostile signs were flaunted before him. Declared an oldtime White House secret service man: "I've been traveling with Presidents since Roosevelt and never before have I seen one actually booed, with men running out into the street to thumb their noses at him. It's not a pretty sight...
Many an industrious officeholder mired in the backwaters of political money-spending sympathized with Dr. Norris' growl: "The whole thing is picayune. It is easier for the large departments to get a million dollars than it is for my small department to get $10. In pursuit of its penny-wise-&-pound-foolish policy, the city threatens to handicap seriously the work the medical examiner's office is supposed to perform...