Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State, telegraphed the handsome, devout and courageous young paralytic who, a fortnight before, had traveled 5,000 miles in his "iron lung" respirator to make his devotions to the Blessed Virgin at the healing shrine of Lourdes (TIME, May 29). Happy Fred B. Snite Jr. replied to Cardinal Maglione...
...This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, heroically defended in 480 B.C. by King Leonidas with 2.000 soldiers against Xerxes' Persian hordes. Recently they found spears, arrows and other weapons on the site (TIME, May 22). Last week word came from Athens that the diggers had identified the hill to which, according to Historian Herodotus, a handful of Spartans withdrew with the body of Leonidas, later beheaded and crucified at Xerxes' orders. The diggers also found four tombs, one of which was believed to be that of Hero Leonidas himself...
...House of Representatives last week, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Rep.), a natty dresser, defined the difference between an under and an assistant secretary of the Cabinet. Said he: the former may wear spats...
...James R. Lemon's sweet-singing children are living today. The Big Singing continues in the Marshall County Court House every May, but many of its dog-eared copies of Southern Harmony been thumbed to pieces...
President Charles E. Brinley, who now fills the shoes of genial Patriarch Samuel Vauclain as head of Baldwin's management, may get Baldwin's break-even point down to its old $30,000,000 level (it was in the red last year on total business of $33,000,000). If he does, U. S. Naval expansion should soon increase Baldwin's non-locomotive business enough to put the company in the black. If Baldwin then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government...