Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office. Last month Democrats renominated Senator Alben Barkley for a second term. Last week Kentucky Republicans, greatly heartened by a jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled before his eyes. Our nominee will beat not one Barkley but four...
...Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo-engraver's. At 19 he set sail in a sloop down the Atlantic coast. In one spring afternoon on the deserted waste of Long Island's Far Rockaway he saw 86 different species of birds. He sold his sloop in Key West and went back to Brooklyn to paint what he had seen. In 1900 he burned the 400 pictures he had. In 1905 he burned most of what he had done over. He figured he could do still better with more time, but he was getting a little panicky...
...Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...
...chief city of Eastern Inner Mongolia is ancient, crumbling Jehol. To an invader Jehol is "the key to Peiping" (once Peking) with which it is connected by an old imperial highway 144 mi. long, just right for rumbling tanks and marching feet. Last week formidable units of the Japanese Army & Air Force moved upon Jehol from Mukden and the Chinese Press screeched, "Invasion!" Meanwhile at Tokyo the bespectacled Son-of-Heaven addressed a little homily on sheep-raising to the Governors of Japanese provinces. Referring to Japan's huge imports of wool from Australia, His Majesty ventured to suggest...
...late Plunger John Warne Gates in 1899, of Illinois Steel Co. (biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary in the Chicago district), stepped aside for his vice president, George Gowen Thorp. Observers marked their retirement as milestones in Chairman Taylor's determined policy to put fresh metal in Steel's key jobs...