Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, later in an automobile assembly plant, became a Socialist, lectured on labor problems at Pomona College until dismissed. He took the headmastership of a school endowed by his father, entered Congress as a New Dealer in 1936. On the Dies Committee, whose conduct he has called "reprehensible," Jerry Voorhis can be counted upon to temper Rightist...
...large explosion and fire in an electric plant in London threw a section of the city into darkness...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
Young Robert Lane Anderson, who took over the Marion, Va. Democrat (circ. 1,400) and the Republican Smyth County News (circ. 1,600, both printed in the same plant) from his father, Novelist Sherwood Anderson, in 1932. An able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played...
...value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph) and the manufacturing facilities of General Household Utilities Co., which include the plant at Marion, Ind. where the old Grigsby-Grunow radio sets were made...