Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without fuss & feathers, a lean, wiry figure walked into the White House last week, hung his hat up on a peg to which it was accustomed and went quietly to work in the office next to President Hoover's. It was Edward T. ("Ted") Clark, longtime confidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge. Unannounced, Theodore ("Ted") Joslin, the President's No. 1 secretary, had departed overnight for an indefinite vacation and Ted Clark had been called in to substitute. President Hoover could hardly have gotten a better man to help him through the ardors of the campaign...
...their run-off primary for Governor last week, a million Texas Democrats divided almost evenly between rich, rotund Ross Shaw Sterling, incumbent, and lean, homely Miriam Amanda (''Ma'') Ferguson, onetime Governor. As the ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
...free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much as a "thank you" the high-powered political machine which...
While a new transatlantic flyer flashed across the sky last week (see above) oldtime transatlantic flyers made less conspicuous news: Brock & Schlee- In Detroit friends of round-faced William S. Brock and lean Edward Frederick Schlee took steps to restore for exhibition the monoplane Pride of Detroit in which the team flew from Detroit to Tokyo exactly five years ago. Purpose: to raise funds for Pilot Brock who lies ill of cancer in Chicago. Pilot Schlee revealed that he had paid $2.700 for the "public banquet" tendered himself and Brock upon their return from Tokyo. Post & Gatty. At the White...
...companies and 82% of the legal reserve business) announced that volume of new insurance for the first seven months was off 15.3%, that July volume was off 23.5%-Despite the drop alert and ubiquitous salesmen placed $5,700,000,000 of group, industrial and ordinary insurance in the seven lean months. U. S. life insurance has doubled in the past ten years. It now amounts to 70% of the world's total. Accustomed to whopping big increases year after year, insurance men were disappointed in last year's trifling increase in total insurance in force...