Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning when the mayor drives to his office-in the winter to the fine old city hall in lower Manhattan; at present to a fine old house in Queens overlooking the East River, rented as a "summer city hall" -he is almost lost in the back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across...
Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
...Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less than the price to retailers, FTC held that the lower price was justified by difference in costs. Moreover Bird no longer sold to retailers, distributing through jobbers who get the same treatment as the mail-order house. But FTC did issue cease-&-desists against two Robinson-Patman violators: Biddle Purchasing Co. (rebates in the form of brokerage commissions from sellers...
...Mightily displeased would Scots have been if Queen Elizabeth had worn the State Crown, the lower part of which she had on week before at the Buckingham Palace Court, for Scotland has its own Crown jewels safely tucked away in Edinburgh Castle...
George Gershwin had just been born when his parents moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan's overcrowded Lower East Side. The earliest sounds young Gershwin heard were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought...