Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning came a loud buzz on the doorbell of the White House Offices. Secret Service men rushed out-for not in months had that bell been rung-glared at a man who meekly said, ''I am Judge Mack of Poughkeepsie. I have an appointment to lunch with the President." So he had, for he was to suggest to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this week, as he did in 1932, that it ought to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for President...
...rose Mrs. Grace H. Brosseau, onetime D.A.R. president, now a W. I. A. director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized...
...quarter showed even a better record than passenger cars, which as a whole rose 22%. After 65 consecutive profitless months, White Motor Co. went into the black with registrations spurting 76% over the first quarter last year. After losing $187,000 in the first period of 1935, Mack Trucks, Inc. cashed in on general sales gains to the extent of earning...
...work out a practical machine that would displace the millions of human fingers which have picked cotton since the time of Eli Whitney. Inventive John D. Rust hit on the idea of using a moistened, rotating spindle to which the cotton in open bolls would stick. His brother Mack, who had gone to college and worked for General Electric, came to help him. Last year, after successful experiments in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, the Rust Cotton Harvester began to attract nationwide attention (TIME, April...
Last week John & Mack Rust appealed for Federal and state aid in working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...