Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With relief, outspoken Arthur Healey resigned his hot spot on the Dies committee, shifted to the Smith group. Prematurely grey Mr. Healey, long a stentorian New Dealer, had been working under wraps on the Dies group, with his strongly Catholic constituency clamoring for more vigorous Red-baiting. California's young Jerry Voorhis will step into Healey's lukewarm shoes as the New Deal's flatfoot assigned to watch Mr. Dies. New Dealers begged Speaker Bankhead to add Illinois' T. V. Smith to the committee as a further balance...
Callers on District Attorney Dewey last week were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, underworld lawyer whose "squealing" testimony won the Hines case for Dewey, and Hope Dare, the redheaded showgirl, long his mistress, whom he married last fortnight. After posing protrusively for newscameras, Davis, whom Dewey detectives still guard night & day, denied helping Dewey try to find Lepke, complained: "Everybody is looking for Lepke and finding me! I want to go away with Hope to some small town and write fiction...
Messrs. Browne & Bioff had not long been tops in I. A. T. S. E. before it began to expand. President of a motion picture projectionists' union was a Chicago racketeer named Tommy Maloy. President Maloy was murdered in 1935. Mr. Browne took over the union. One Clyde Osterberg tried to organize a rival union of movie operators. He was murdered. Louis ("Two Gun") Alterie was doing well at organizing theatre janitors when he, too, was murdered. Mr. Browne inherited this union...
...nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candidates, on a straddlebug platform, I personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to, and belief in, liberal democracy, will find it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic Party...
Count Ciano, dressed in a white suit, was half an hour late. The Führer, who has recently been in a beaming, expansive mood, and who at Berchtesgaden likes to sleep late in the morning and talk late at night with his old cronies, was cordial. Lunch was long. Long was the talk after it. At tea time Count Ciano was still there. Then, literally as well as figuratively, the Führer took his guest, emissary of his Axis partner, up in the mountains to look at the view...