Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator.
Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid...
The fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels.
Mayor Walker spoke darkly of bribery of fire inspectors.
Last week Chairman Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. of America appeared as a witness before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In one word he approved a bill by Senator Couzens to create a Federal Communications Commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission; in many words he pleaded for two...