Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Good-Will Tour of Texas," "The Garner-Farley Texas Trip" and (by capital wags) "The Farley Expedition to Rediscover Jack Garner," the voyagers spent the night at Jackson, Miss. Having paused at Meridian to dedicate a post office, next day at Fort Worth they discovered little old hawk-beaked Vice President Garner. Then the fun began...
...return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier MacDonald and M. Paul-Boncour (see cut)-was said to be ready to press the same threat again. Anxiously Mr. Davis, Sir John and M. Paul-Boncour hurried to Geneva where they were joined...
...guests, to an informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross there were August C. ("Gus") Haller of Pittsburgh, builder of Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren Eaton, Norwich, N. Y. After feeling their way up & down the Ridge for a couple of days, the pilots went out for records. Mehlhose, in a Hawk, took off from Rockfish Gap in a wind that nearly tore his wings...
...Major Fey is the sort of character that feature writers love. Hawk-nosed, with a mouth like a wolftrap. Major Fey has a war record even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie Antoinette's smart mother the Empress Maria Theresa realized that the Habsburg Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1 U. S. branch-banker and John Francis Neylan, oldtime San Francisco newsman and now William Randolph Hearst's shrewd, hawk-nosed general counsel, were elected directors of Manhattan's National City Bank. Taking two of the three seats vacated by Charles Edwin Mitchell, Hugh Benton Baker and Percy Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National...