Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could not be sued, because of Congressional immunity for remarks on the floor. But seven days later Newshawk Childs sued Guffey for $100,000 slander, charging that the Senator had made similar statements "in the presence of others...
...heroic Dewey headlines. Last week Mr. Dewey found the trail uncomfortably crowded. Trotting along at his side were all the human bloodhounds of the F. B. I., headed by John Edgar Hoover himself, and with Franklin Roosevelt's Attorney General Frank Murphy whipping them on. Overnight, national politics made a national figure out of their common quarry: a big-nosed, big-eared, Russian-Jewish underworldling named Louis ("Lepke,* the Leopard") Buchalter...
Last week the continued rise of George Browne, the continued expansion of I. A. T. S. E., made big news. His union of stagehands having grown until it embraced or claimed nearly everybody except the talent working for legitimate theatres, broadcasters, movie houses and cinemakers, he was out with a kingly plan to enroll the talent as well. He proposed to do nothing less than make I. A. T. S. E. and its subsidiaries one big union, himself a labor tsar for the whole entertainment industry...
Week's end came and still no rain fell on northwest Oregon (where annual precipitation is normally 43.17 in.). Fitful breezes made the flames doubly capricious and dangerous. Roads were closed, armies of volunteers set backfires to head off the destroyer. In Washington, the red tiger rambled from the rough hills 45 miles north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode...
...correspondents could confidently guess the main topics of the Führer's talk. But they had a lot to talk about-Hungary, where Nazi economic dominance has steadily increased; Yugoslavia, where negotiations between Croats and Serbs were broken off, whose Premier made a mysterious flight to Italy; Spain, where General Franco set up a new Cabinet; Italy, where economic conditions were reported increasingly bad and where some mysterious reversal upset the maneuvers of the Army of the Po; The Netherlands, shaken with political crises, a far-reaching bank failure, and alarmed for her Pacific Empire; Russia, where...