Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Artist Anderson was in Manhattan, bewildered by the fuss made over him, wrestling with the job of making Henry act funny seven days a week. One thing eased that task: Though Henry remains for the most part as mute as ever, his companions in the newspaper strip may talk...
...agent in his secretary. Louis McHenry Howe. But Mr. Howe, suffering from dyspepsia, gradually faded from the scene. Frank C. Walker, able lawyer, one-time treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and personal friend of Franklin Roosevelt, was likewise hailed as Assistant President. For months he presided over the mute and unsung labors of the old Executive Council and National Emergency Council. Finally he quietly retired and was quickly forgotten. Donald Richberg is the third No. 1 man at the President's elbow. Despite the powers conferred upon him, he was not expected last week to remain "Assistant President...
...Prince Jaime, Alfonso's only other living son, on whom the succession would normally descend, is a hopeless deaf-mute...
...Life of Insull to get at the fraud of Corporation Securities. To help him are 2,500 exhibits, 200 witnesses to identify the exhibits, a freshly made 22-ft. bookcase in the courtroom to hold the exhibits. At the end of last week he was still busy having his mute witnesses identified by a voluble line of clerks and accountants. He will need at least four more weeks to com plete his presentation of the case...
Father Kenny said that so long as the Cristeros (religious opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...