Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...
Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...
...chances for any sort of progressive national party in 1940 were no greater after the Socialists had acted upon their prime political problem of the moment: whether, when, and how to align with the State and local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist...
...Continental Congress"-occurred in Constitution Hall. To join the D. A. R., which currently has 2,503 chapters, 143,000 members, requires no more than an ability to show that one or more ancestors bore arms against George III. Belonging to the organization is a matter of considerably more moment. In addition to its routine political activities of viewing with alarm, the D. A. R. runs innumerable pilgrimages, student loan plans, charities, better citizenship contests, scholarships, historical shrines and exhibits...
Depression hit Benson & Rixon for only a moment; in 1933 the annual gross was again $2,000,000 and President Benson's enthusiasm was still aggressive and undampened. Now he is booming a new experiment, the three-pants suit. This consists of the standard two-pants article plus an odd pair of different pattern. Benson & Rixon buys the odd pants separately, sells them at cost (a $26 two-pants suit sells for only $29.50 as a three-pants suit). By last week the chain had sold 2,900 three-pants suits in three weeks. Said beaming 55-year...