Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political drama and home consumption only. It is otherwise with Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the potent Senate Finance Committee. Usually cautious about what he says, he usually means it when he says it. Last week at a meeting of the Democratic State Committee in Jackson. Miss., he spoke. His flat announcement...
...interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick R. F. D. box displayed at the convention by Farmer Adney Coleman of Evergreen, Ala., which looked...
...similar suit last year, by a righteously indignant Miss Frances Moore against one John Thermos of Cicero, Ill. who won $50,000 on an Irish Sweepstakes ticket, was beaten by showing that this "gamble" took place outside of Illinois. Chicago lawyers last week said the odds were on Mrs. Maxwell to take Johnson...
Wrote tousled Manhattan Columnist Heywood Broun: "The United States Chamber of Commerce might well profit by a little lecture from Miss Carole Lombard." Miss Lombard's little lecture: "I gave the Federal Government 65% of my wages last year, and I was glad to do it, too. . . . Income tax money all goes into improvement and protection of the country. . . . I really think I got my money's worth...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...