Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asked by TIME: "Do you want to make a statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This...
...usher's job is to put the buyers [congregation] in a receptive mood for the supersalesman in the pulpit to work on. . . . We don't like the hale & hearty traveling salesman's greeting." But at the other evil extreme is the cold-shoulder church. "There must be no distracting influences [from the service]. A good usher asks himself: 'Is the sidewalk clean? Are the steps clear of snow and ice? Are the lights too bright? . . . How is the heat?' Heat makes or mars a service. If we see somebody nodding, we check the heat before...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million went to his former secretary-nurse, Ethabelle Green, who had sued for half the estate, claiming that Big Bill promised it to her in return for the "care and affection" she bestowed upon him "as a daughter" for twelve years before his death...
...year for his ideas. Born in Missouri, Neil entered Stanford University in 1915, took nearly two years out to go to war, came back and crammed hard enough to graduate with his class in 1919. By the time he was 28, Petree was managing San Francisco's big Hale Brothers department store, at 33 was president of James McCreery & Co. in New York...
...Parker, Ariz. (pop. 456), Andy Hale put a sign in his barbershop: "Japs Keep Out You Rats," ejected Raymond Matsuda, a Nisei veteran, wounded in Italy. . These were isolated instances, in small communities. But most of the U.S. Japanese on the West Coast lived in such small towns. And in the larger cities, the Hearst press kept up its anti-Japanese screams. California's Governor Warren, setting the tone for the vast majority of West Coast citizens, promised every effort to keep the return of the Nisei orderly...