Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspect the tenements and help launch a prospective Housing Authority, a progressive Harvard graduate and one-time Assemblyman: Langdon W. Post, son-in-law of Rollin Kirby whose slashing cartoons in the World-Telegram helped throw the Tammany Tiger into the ashcan...
...hard money advisers sat in the seats of power. Secretary Woodin was ill and Dean Acheson was quietly running the Treasury. Hardmoney-men Sprague and George Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message: 1) that...
...bird shot, the coupons being sold and cashed by the State. Iowa has banned all quail shooting for 17 years. New Jersey's northern counties have been closed to it for some ten years. This autumn New Jersey will allow farm-raised quail to be hunted. Iowa will launch a long-range program for increasing its quail supply. In twelve experimental areas State College researchers are studying methods of determining how many quail a given area contains, how many of them may wisely be shot each year. To be licensed for quail-raising a farm must have 640 continuous...
...Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three-day civic celebration. It did cause Manhattan art critics to launch columns of the most florid writing since the death of James Gibbons Huneker. Excerpts : Edward Alden Jewell (Times) : "Yet if the Crucifixion be esteemed a truly inspired example of the Flemish miniaturist's artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell...
...under a Retail Code. He was about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...