Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewelers and novelty shops all over the Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring...
...help wangle the steel code. U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor and Bethlehem's Charles M. Schwab spent an hour on the carpet in the White House. They emerged rather grimly, refused so much as a word to newshawks. One determined correspondent took Mr. Taylor's lapel, cried: "You'd better come clean. We're stockholders in your company...
...breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King and Premier honorary members of the American Legion...
...President & Mrs. Roosevelt dined two dozen, mostly relatives. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, went down from Hyde Park for the party. As it was also St. Patrick's Day, the President wore a green silk handkerchief embroidered with "Happy Days," a green carnation in his lapel. He told friends his green tie was worn...
...Roosevelt finished his brief broadcast, handed the lapel microphone to the station manager. To fill in, Mr. Mizer began to describe the crowd scene when the eccentric little Italian stood on tip-toe to open fire. Though Mr. Mizer later declared he had signed off when the excitement began, Miami's famed Pressagent Steve Hannagan, who sweated with the Press to get the story out on the assumption that for publicity purposes any news is good news, said he heard the soothing voice of the announcer report: "There seems to be some excitement here in the crowd...