Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...A.F.W.'s 15,000 (claimed) members could not cripple the Manhattan hotel business by itself, and the big A.F. of L. unions declined to join the strike. Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew...
...Fannie Hurst would have choired the paean with more gusto. Horatio Alger would have awarded his hero a more thoroughgoing financial success. But not even Zenith's Chamber of Commerce could have done a more wholehearted job of boosting than this onetime Babbitt-baiter has done...
...White House last week filled with preholiday social activities. As house guests the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Jacques F. Danielson & wife (Fannie Hurst). After a large dinner the Sedalia Singers of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N. C. performed at a musicale.* Next day Mrs. Roosevelt entertained Mrs. Hearst and Miss Hurst by taking them into one of the President's regular press conferences...
...Fred Archer. He has two months left to beat the world's record of 338 winners ridden in 1884 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. Westrope's closest competitor is Gordon Richards, champion jockey of England, who last week equalled the English record, at Hurst Park, London...
...estate, Libby Holman Reynolds considered the town's eight policemen, then ensured the safety of her six-month-old son by engaging six armed guards and a Great Dane. At an early morning "lineup" in Manhattan police headquarters appeared Author Andre Maurois (Ariel; Disraeli) led by Authoress Fannie Hurst. When police offered to demonstrate the efficiency of their radio patrol system by having two policemen call on Mme Maurois in her hotel room, M. Maurois cried: "Good heavens, no! To have two policemen suddenly appear in our apartment would terrify her." Miss Hurst next took M. Maurois to Harlem...