Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jitters, Lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University, 66-year-old Governor Green belongs by birth to Rhode Island's Republican mill-owning class but has cast his lot with plebeian Democrats. Last week he was an old man badly frightened when he asked his State Assembly for: 1) $100,000 to up the State police force from 51 to 1,000 during the emergency; 2) $100,000 more to put 1,000 War veterans under arms; 3) power to close any or all textile mills in the State; 4) power to call in Federal troops, which he said...
...been taking thyroid treatments and has lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does a lot of swimming at the Beach Club in Santa Monica and plays a little tennis. She gives the kind of parties at which people go upstairs and dress in funny clothes, then come down and do acts. She knows a lot about music and likes musicians at her parties. She joined...
Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell and Assistant to the Secretary Paul Henson Appleby sailed from Manhattan to attend the meetings of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome. Secretary Tugwell locked his cabin door, leaving Secretary Appleby outside to explain: "He is not snooty but there was a lot of last minute work he had to do. . . . Neither the President nor Secretary Wallace had any hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip...
...down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...
...knew anything about the liquor business except consumption. Last week, however, President Porter created two new vice presidencies, one for Arthur W. Loasby, onetime head of old Equitable Trust and chairman of National Distillers' executive committee since 1924; and one for Ross C, Treseder, who knows a lot about drink but not hard drink. Liquor-man Treseder used to be vice president & general manager of a big Coca-Cola selling subsidiary...