Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees and NLRB, in so doing has aroused the suspicions of some A. F. of L. executive councilmen, who feel that Attorney Padway's appetite for profitable publicity may outgrow the bounds befitting a hired hand...
...beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number...
...Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such as sending its pupils to study the TVA at first hand (TIME, Feb. 21). Last week Lincoln School celebrated its 20th anniversary in an unorthodox way. It published the frank opinions of the school reported by the guinea pigs on whom it had experimented. Comments of some of its 608 graduates...
...Philip Fairstone, who began to stammer at 6 because hewas made to write with his right hand instead of his left, went the J. Stanley Smith trophy for most progress toward stammerless speech...
Rushing over to lead in the winner, Owner Herbert Maurice Woolf, a Kansas City clothier famed as a breeder of show horses, was so elated that he pranced like one of his colts, swung his binoculars above his head in circles, pumped the hand of Jockey Arcaro again & again. Not only had Owner Woolf won the $47,000 first-place money and a $5,000 gold cup, but he had bet heavily and forehandedly on his Missouri colt-whose sire he had picked up for $500. Placing substantial wagers in the winter books (as high...