Word: levitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important act of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1937-38 session was, as anticipated, to dispose of the petition by Lawyer Albert Levitt, that Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black be required to prove his eligibility (TIME, Oct. 11). Also as anticipated, the petition was denied. Said solemn Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
Here is the way Louis got his start: "I arrived at Harvard Square at about 7. I did not know one building from the other so I went over to Levitt and Pierce's and got myself a Harvard directory this had all the names of every Harvard student and his room number...
...Last week in Connecticut Albert Levitt, onetime Columbia University professor, now a special assistant in the U. S. Attorney General's office, charged in a debate with Samuel Ferguson, chairman of Connecticut Power and President of Hartford Electric Light, that the two companies had earned $8,000,000 excess profits in the last five years, offered to go to jail for five years if he could not prove it in the Supreme Court...
...Manhattan, Abraham Levitt, jeweler, felt nauseated, tried to make himself vomit by tickling his uvula with a spoon. The spoon caught in his gullet. Bellowing, Jeweler Levitt rushed out for help. A policeman tried to extricate the spoon. Jeweler Levitt hastened to Beekman St. Hospital. While waiting for a surgeon, he signaled for a drink of water, drank, gagged, gasped. Out popped the spoon...