Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make "token payments ' on its war debt to the U. S. only because President Roosevelt, after receiving each token, has always expressed the personal view that it wiped away the stain of technical default. Last week it was the painful duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed Neville Chamberlain, to explain to the House of Commons that President Roosevelt was no longer able to gild tokens with their oldtime gloss. The Johnson Bill, barring flotation in the U. S. of securities of a defaulting nation, had caught the President up short (TIME, April 16). Since...
Last week AP had its annual meeting in the new Waldorf-Astoria, and out came the old hatchet. This time it was brandished over the question of news pictures. First to pick it up was Hearst's brainy general counsel, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan of San Francisco...
Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...
...maintains 36 local bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn at the White House. When the lights wink...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...