Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had turned over control of that purse to the Executive Department. Cotton-conscious Congressmen squirmed and realized that they were the very ones who had stood or tried to stand in the way of Franklin Roosevelt's pet Wages & Hours and Housing Bills...
...lugubrious occasion Pelham became Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That evening at the Pelham Country Club, Cartoonist Fox was guest of honor at a dinner. Next day his trolley was replaced by a shiny new omnibus...
...positions have been reversed: the Herald's prestige and its acceptance in the swankiest Massachusetts Avenue homes sell advertisers in the Times. Mrs. Patterson intends to make the Times her own mouthpiece, dress it in new format, give it her best writers, many of them women, and her pet features. She is no political ax-grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward the Hearst policies. She is an old friend of Harold Ickes, entertains Joseph Kennedy and Harry Hopkins, recently had Mrs. Roosevelt splashing...
...been married twice, first to Austrian-Polish Count Joseph Gizycki, by whom she has a daughter, then to the late Elmer Schlesinger, Shipping Board counsel. Her pet dislike is Eugene Meyer, and last week she was in a position to give him and other Washington publishers plenty to think about...
Charles Hoyt March, 66, a Hoover appointee reappointed by President Roosevelt; handsome, heavyset, a onetime lawyer whose particular hate is monopolies. His pet case at the moment is the Cement Institute (TIME, July 12). Colonel March's FTC specialty is the legal...