Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before that happened, Senator Barkley's only claim to national fame was as the keynoter of the 1932 and 1936 Democratic conventions. Before 1932 he was just a member of the Democratic minority in the Senate who had spellbound his colleagues on Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy...
...meant consistent advocacy of higher wages as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone today...
Sued for Divorce. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family;* by his third wife, Pauline Warren Palmer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota...
...applied for a license to wed Florence Gayle, 18-year-old San Francisco nightclub entertainer. This Mr. Moody gave San Francisco's Olympic Club as his residence, oil broker as his occupation, divorced as his marital status. Queried by reporters same day, Frederick S. Moody Jr., Olympic Club member, oil broker, divorced husband of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, denied filing the application, denied knowing Miss Gayle. Snapped he: "I was in San Francisco...
Born. To Dorothy Round Little, last year's Wimbledon tennis champion, six-time member of the Wightman Cup team; and Dr. Douglas Little; their first child; a boy; in Dudley, England. Because she was about to become a mother England's No. 1 woman player did not play at Wimbledon this year. England's No. 1 man player, Bunny Austin entered although he was about to become a father, lost in the finals to California's Donald Budge (TIME, July...