Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President David Sarnoff sent envoys to Milan to induce Maestro Arturo Toscanini to conduct ten broadcasts with the projected NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Feb. 15). Conductor Toscanini asked and got a contract for $4,000 per broadcast, probably the highest price ever paid a conductor. At the behest of plump, practical Signora Toscanini, it was also stipulated that NBC should buy the Maestro a round-trip ticket from Italy to the U. S. and pay the income taxes on his U. S. earnings (TIME...
...Pittsburgh last week, Rev. James R. Cox, plump priest who once led a "jobless army" to Washington and announced himself a "Jobless Party" candidate for President of the U. S. in 1932, hit an unforeseen snag in a campaign by which he had hoped to raise $20,000 to pay the debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought...
...which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of Berwyn. A lawyer by profession, plump, 35-year-old Justice of the Peace Mandell announced that he had married only 41 couples in Berwyn in six months, saw no obstacle to making use of his administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look in the statute books corroborated his belief. When Chicago newspapers...
...efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova, until last week director of the New Dawn perfume & face powder factory...
First woman sentenced to death in Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...