Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pistols cracked, and better than nine out of ten of their shots pierced the 3¼-in. bull's-eyes. Best individual shot among the Treasury's men was an affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week he let smugglers know how dangerous life can be by shooting 299 out of a possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting...
...hell with 'em." Said Joe Curran to his 50,000 members: "Don't be played for suckers." But Joe Curran, more of a democrat than an autocrat, believes that if a majority of his seamen want to be suckers, then suckers they should be without let or hindrance from the top. Whether he and N. M. U. can make this theory stick against such laddiebucks as Fireman King & friends remains to be seen...
...draft a Republican program for 1940, found their liveliest inspiration in a statue. Presented by the committee's secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip of paper, reading "I do not choose to run." Last week, on the eleventh anniversary of that occasion, Third Termite Charles Michelson, grizzled pressagent...
...bounce from his primary defeat, Representative Maury Maverick of Texas wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Record. Excerpt: "Calling all progressives! Calling all liberals! Stop your telegrams telling me how sad it was that I got beat. . . . The job we have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat. Let me be a lesson to you." ¶ After 35 years of married life, Linda Gaddy Bilbo of Poplarville, Miss, last fortnight was divorced by Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment of the Senator (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week she announced that...
...swirling froth of snow. In spite of the fact that Swiss authorities had warned that local guides could no longer be asked to risk their lives trying to rescue Eigerwand climbers, two natives clambered to the summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand during the blinding snowstorm, reached their goal at twilight the evening...