Word: inners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouped in. Decked out in gold, blue and maroon uniforms, they filled every hotel room in town, overflowed into Canada across the river. Some had to sleep in parked Pullmans. All over the city were Wartime Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus huts. The society of the 40 & 8, inner sanctum of the Legion, had brought its French freight car, symbol of the organization. Mascot goats, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, dogs, skunks, burros were displayed everywhere...
...care of horses and the cultivation of politicians he might have been ruined when the Metropolitan fire departments were motorized. But Mayor Hylan made him Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau in 1918 at a salary of $6,000 a year. In this office he became familiar with the inner working of the Board of Standards & Appeals which grants building permits. Four years later he was pensioned off (at $2,755) "on account of eyesight...
...Maitre: title of all French avocats. French women lawyers, however, are not maitresses, illustrated by the news last week that Maitre Maria Verone and Maitre Marie Therese Moreau were unsuccessful candidates for the Conseil de I'Ordre, the inner law circle which voted the title batonnier to M. Poincare...
...Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case, about the Delaware case, Mr. Aylesworth said: "I know very little about it. I wouldn't know a vacuum tube from an inner tube. I'm a broadcaster." Observed Representative Reid: "You're a slicker, too." Retorted Broadcaster Aylesworth: "Well, it's something to be called a slicker by a Congressman...
...visits to him, tarried and vanished. The first market break found him in a good cash position and he exuberantly began "selling the list," and he sold time and again. Soon the Danforth legend began to grow (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). His tall, lean figure became familiar in the inner sanctums of Manhattan's speculating circles. Indian-like in appearance, he maintained an Indian's calm, made no tactical blunders. Aged 45, he likes golf, plays at the Westchester Country Club with other big market operators. He likes airplanes, flies about in his Bellanca. Last winter...