Word: pressers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sincere and frequently speaks his mind. That's why he's popular with Washington correspondents. His suite in the House Building retains much of the flavor of the small town lawyer's office. Pants which are obviously in the midst of being carried personally to the presser drape the backs of chairs. Country weeklies from Georgia are piled here and there, and "Goober" is none too concerned with House(office)keeping. But let no one, because of these oddities in Congressman Cox's make up, presume that he is not abreast of the times and that...
...Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved his connections and platform manners, ran again for Governor last year. This time, having promised voters a reformed Highway Commission and the immensely popular $3 automobile licenses which Governor Talmadge had given to Georgians...
...Presser, Cleveland, O.; Arthur W. Todd, Cleveland Heights, O.; Edwin McG. Warner, Geneva, O.; Sidney S. Alexander, Forest City, Pa.; Howard S. Derrickson, Darby, Pa.; Edward H.H. Jasen, Stroudsburg, Pa.; John S. Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rupert M. Smith, Bethayres, Pa.; Irving G. Shaffer, Reading, Pa.; George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter...
...charming note which Director Walter Lang quickly suppresses. A chorus of girl students, Ted Healy and stooges prance energetically through the proceedings. Finally the leal Baron and then Pearl's Aunt Sophie arrive and thoroughly expose the impostors. Miss Pitts, inconsolable, finds her hero is a pants-presser but follows Pearl anyway - and he is offered a fabulous radio contract. The picture ends with Manager Durante, in a state of wild-eyed, concentrated insanity, dickering with the radio agent about imaginary contract quibbles...
Author of the new feature is Ray Gross, 38, a dark, dome-browed man who worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years. When he managed a chain of clothing stores he got the idea for the pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight...