Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week none other than John L. Lewis went out of his way to plump for that suggestion. At Houston, Teamster Daniel J. Tobin made himself the No. 1 figure of this year's A.F. of L. convention by pounding for peace, at last forced William Green to pay attention to the hitherto neglected message from Mr. Roosevelt. After much verbiage on the floor, much talk behind doors, Dan Tobin was able to announce that he had received a promise of positive action for peace from the all-powerful executive council...
...years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey in the U.S. Attorney's office and later worked for him as a municipal racket buster. Judging Manhattan well taken care of when Tom Dewey was elected...
...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
Motoring down to Morgantown, Md., 55 miles below Washington on the Potomac, Mr. Roosevelt took Candidate Lewis along with him, permitted plump Republican Governor Nice...
...Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...