Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt last week dipped down past Hugh Drum and the 33 next-ranking officers of the Army. For his next Chief of Staff he chose a man who was a colonel until 1936, has been a real Brass Hat only since last July. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff, at 58 becomes the only full general on active service, the first non-West Pointer since 1914 to be Chief of Staff. The last was Leonard Wood, who began as an Army doctor...
...Indian-blooded Constitutional President of Mexico, is a democrat because "when a monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change him." In this simple faith Juárez, played with stolid nobility by Paul Muni in a dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when the U. S. finally frightens Napoleon into abandoning the puppet emperor to his fate, Juárez makes a choice between principle and pity...
...real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton, half from, others...
When Bishop Spellman returned to Boston, near which he was born and, as a grocer's boy, played sandlot baseball, observers predicted for him an archbishopric and a Cardinal's red hat. Last week New York's genial Archbishop-elect, about to turn 50, had fulfilled one prediction, seemed sure to fulfill the other...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...