Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down in room No. 717 at the Bellevue-Stratford to an all-night job. Their job was to make their work last all night. Waiters came & went with trays, bottles, ice. By morning Senator Wagner's job was nearly done, the platform was hastily sent to Washington by plane to be examined at the White House. By evening it was back, amended. The platform committee approved it, a stenographer retyped it, the Convention adopted it with a conglomerate shout. If politics were not so largely composed of headlines and hullabaloo, President Roosevelt could have issued it direct from...
...predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard, Dr. Goebbels rushed the pugilist's mother and his wife, German Cinemactress Anny Ondra, to meet him in a Government plane. Berlin tax experts figured that of Schmeling's $150,000 fight profits, the U. S. will get $40,000 and Germany $50,000 unless special tax remission is ordered by Adolf Hitler...
First Plunge- With lines of fatigue still written on his face from his Cleveland campaign, John Hamilton last week alighted from a plane at Newark to start the Republican campaign in the East. Asked why he had chosen Manhattan he replied with a grin, "Mostly because I want to see the Louis-Schmeling fight...
Sins of Man (Twentieth Century-Fox). Sad, simple and superfluous, this picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot...
...Middleburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's 45-year-old Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back...