Word: loth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Chief Moran became 70, the age at which all Government workers must retire. But President Roosevelt was loth to lose the services of the man who had guarded the lives of his five predecessors, who knows more about counterfeiters than any other man in the land. By executive order. Chief Moran's term of office was extended two years...
Neither Mr. Untermyer nor Mr. Pecora had reckoned on Senator Carter Glass, who was loth to see his ward, the Federal Reserve Board, in the role of margin clerk to the nation. Few days later the peppery little Virginia Senator marched into the Banking & Currency Committee, whose headlined sessions he is usually too busy to attend, and jammed through an amendment creating a separate stock exchange commission to administer the whole bill- just what President Whitney has been demanding. A thumping victory for the bill's opponents. Senator Glass's revolt cleared the way for thoroughgoing revision...
...airliners flying more than 150 m.p.h. Since the faster speed would make pilots travel the same distance in less time than before, they demanded to be paid on a mileage rather than hourly basis. (On the per-hour basis, pilots' pay had averaged $6,500 a year.) Loth to sacrifice the economic advantage gained by speed, the airlines refused. The Pilots Association threatened a strike, called it off. submitted its case to the National Labor Board. Last week Pilot Behncke, no longer eligible to head his union since he is not an active pilot, complained to the Labor Board...
These young men, still in their twenties and early thirties, can do little to carry on the continuity of the firm's experience. Today that continuity rests more upon non-family members. One of them is Sir William Wiseman (loth scion of a Baronetcy founded in 1628) who came to the U. S. as chief of the British Military Intelligence during the War, became intimate with Col. House, served as British adviser at Versailles. He has been with K. L. since 1921 although only made a partner four years ago. Another is George Wallace Bovenizer (a partner since...
...TIME cares, TIME will read William Vincent Byars' An American Commoner and find there the quotation from Dana in his Sun: "R. P. Bland is the only statesman produced in this country in the last quarter of the loth Century." And TIME may find the following in the Sun early in 1912: "We note that Champ Clark has selected Bill Stone as his campaign manager. Be careful, Champ, remember what Stone did to Bland at Chicago." And if TIME is not, history will be concerned with what happened at Chicago: That Bland led without any sort of organized support...