Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt's No. 1 Good Neighborhood agent, grey and graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
Encouraged by some employers who welcome him as an antidote to Radical Harry Bridges, Dave Beck has invaded California, has organized teamsters even in the neighborhood of open-shop Los Angeles...
...week end in Chicago last January the jury hearing the second embezzlement trial of ousted Superior Court Clerk Frank V. Zintak spent most of its time on a tour of saloons in the neighborhood as well as some that were far enough away from the Criminal Courts Building to require a bus ride to reach them. Keeper of the twelve men was Former Deputy Sheriff Daniel Miller, who went along...
...these exercises should be taken at dawn and sunset, on an empty stomach, on a firm but soft seat, in a quiet neighborhood, naked except for a loin cloth...
...flagrantly misrepresenting the assets of a certain Big Wedge Gold Mining Co., of California. This time his promotion of "The London Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood of his address was not inappropriate, because the chief backer of the London Curb was none other than Martin Coles Harman, famed onetime "King" of the island of Lundy...