Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campaigning for re-election as Governor of Oregon, Democrat Charles Henry ("Old Iron Pants") Martin last week announced that when the President visited Bonneville Dam last fall, he had exclaimed: ''You and I make a good pair.'' Said Secretary Early: "When this was called to the President's attention he expressed surprise at its publication and said that to the best of his knowledge he never made such a statement to Governor Martin...
...world. Its teachers are the best paid.* It has the biggest, most expensive school buildings. It also has some 20,000 habitual truants, turns out swarms of young criminals. Until a few years ago nearly one-third of its pupils were retarded, barking their shins against its iron, assembly-line curriculum...
...cast-iron constitution, one that can digest a season in Palm Beach, too many rich luncheons at 21 and the Colony, nights out at the Stork and El Morocco and the constant battering of debutantes who are determined to get into the movies via the front page...
Born in St. Paul 48 years ago, Paul Shields grew up in Canada where his father was president of Dominion Iron & Steel Co. He graduated from Loyola, flunked out of Cornell Law, sold real estate, took a crack at investment banking and in 1923 went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...
...Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both reach Chicago in record schedule time of 16 hours. Neither line will use radically new engines, will simply put new harness on Iron Horses. The cars, however, will be a departure. Both trains will have "roomette" Pullman cars (TIME, Dec. 13), and will be the first all-room trains...