Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to descend the steel ladder to make his inspection was 33-year-old John...
...speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people of New York and vicinity have not been in such a fever of excitement since the night The Ladder closed." Faithfully reported were the first words of the match, spoken by Mrs. Culbertson after Lenz & Jacoby had won the cut and settled themselves North & South, respectively, of a walnut card table especially constructed for the match. First words: ''Where do you wish to sit, Ely?" Mr. Culbertson chose West...
Presidents pair only with Premiers. Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...railroad world there is no well defined seniority ranking of the presidencies. Nor is there any well-defined ladder for a railroad president to climb from one major company to another. Within a big system there sometimes is a definite succession: In the case of Illinois Central the president is usually trained in the presidency of subsidiary Central of Georgia, although this was not true of the last Georgia Central president, John Jeremiah Pelley, who became head of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...Square structure was condemned by building inspectors and Harvard Square business men objected to the permanent removal of the apparatus to a distant station. Mayor Russell did not know yesterday how many pieces of apparatus would be accomodated but the original plans were for a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pumping engine...