Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tireless, pee-wee Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant of Atlanta, oldest (28) and smallest (5 ft. 3) of the 1939 contenders, who has been among the top ten for the past six years and is famed not only as a tumblebug and crowd pleaser (he is almost as efficient horizontally as vertically) but also as one of the greatest retrievers in the history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis...
Chief witness at FCC's hearing was Neville Miller, who made just that point. The FCC suspended the debated ruling pending completion of its hearings, issued a huffy disclaimer: "It has not been the practice of the Communications Commission in the past nor is the intention of the Commission now ... to require the submission of any program, continuity or script for editing, modification or revision, or for any other purpose prior to its use by a station...
...activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
...Whatever has happened in the past four years has been flashy. I blundered my way into a labor dispute and got it settled. I was called a Communist for six weeks and a Nazi for two minutes. I've done no solid job yet from the newspaper point of view. From the other side there's a job to be done-San Francisco needs a kick in the tail. But I hope to do that with the newspaper...
...past five years, Father Divine, always well-heeled with the contributions he receives from the earnings of his followers, has bought $212,000 worth of property on the west bank of the Hudson, north of New York. The dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...