Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost Jess, but somehow the corporate ghost of "The Good Companions" lives on and is not to be laid without special attention from the playwright. The audience never knows what happens to the old veterans. Instead, the curtain falls on Jess as he starts off for Canada, saw and hammer in hand, for new adventure...
Georges Gauchet, 25, well brought up son of a millionaire, squandered a fortune on Montmartre, became a dope addict, was cut off by his family. Impoverished, he broke into a jeweler's store on the fashionable Avenue Mozart, killed the jeweler with a hammer and a revolver...
Died. William Carl von Hammer, 61, founder, secretary & treasurer of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Association; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. First founded to gain local support for the San Carlo Opera Company, the Philadelphia Opera assumed independence under the able guidance of Founder Hammer and his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Cecil O'Gorman Hammer, produced, notably, Wozzeck (TIME, March...
...plan is a significant one. In contrast to Owen D. Young's tearful pleas for money to tide over the starving, here is a hard-headed measure of a man's real willingness to work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the industrious needy from the conveniently unemployed. Any able-bodied man can keep body and soul together at the work provided without a drain upon the state, thus greatly lessening the need for downright dole...
Last week it became clear why President Benenson wished to sell the property to New York Dock. Benenson City Terminal Co. was unable to meet a $2,451,000 bond maturity and a foreclosure was ordered. Under the auctioneer's hammer, wielded by ubiquitous Joseph Paul Day, went the 34-story Benenson office building at No. 165 Broadway, two adjacent parcels. The total winning bids were $23,775,779 or only $1,815,000 more than existing prior liens...