Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the moment President Roosevelt in his inaugural address opened fire on "unscrupulous money changers and their false leadership" his Attorney General, Homer Stillé Cummings, has concentrated his efforts on rooting out what political Washington calls "bad bankers." One of his methods is to prosecute them obliquely under the Federal Income Tax law as in the case of Manhattan's Charles Edwin Mitchell.* Another is to catch them directly for violation of the national banking act. Such was the method which last week continued to make news in the case of Joseph Wright Harriman, arrested on his Manhattan...
...catch-can farm relief bill is experimentally designed to solve. For two days such earthy talk as Representative Truax's was bandied back & forth on the floor amid gales of laughter and applause, but without material effect on House thought. Relief for "runty" agriculture was foreordained from the moment of Mr. Roosevelt's election...
...gave the appearance of a large floodlight being turned on in the sky. In a second or so it grew too bright for me. We were at about the same altitude. In a moment I caught sight of its tail and could tell that it was going north...
Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
...carried departments for Government, Business, Art, Medicine, Sport, Music, Theatre, Persons. It told how Mayor Roesch "lit a fresh cigar, twiddled his watch chain a moment," slashed the city's budget. Happiest stroke was a three-column report on the just-published memoirs of Buffalo's Mabel Ganson Dodge Sterne Luhan who, now married to a Taos Indian, gained bohemian fame by previously marrying Painter Maurice Sterne and writing her intimate reminiscences of Author David Herbert Lawrence (Lorenzo in Taos...