Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfreda Mitchell of New London, Conn., who has borne him seven large sons-Woodbridge (28), Hiram, Alfred, Charles, Brewster, Mitchell, Jonathan (16). He likes to be photographed with them in a descending row. In Washington he lives in an apartment on upper 16th Street. His Connecticut home is on Prospect Street, New Haven. He plays much golf and bridge, both fairly well. He travels by airplane whenever he can secure an Army or Navy aviator to transport him. He has not piloted a plane alone since he left France. He owns a La Salle automobile, drives it himself between Washington...
...construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...pleasure last week for Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon to drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
...having decided to mind everyone else's business, including the book reviewers', and with the unpleasant premonition that only a few more days of peace and quiet remain before the prospect of another term's work, the Vagabond insists on telling what reading should occupy the gentleman of leisure, until Monday...
...charge of the present offices. Besides serving as general executive under the direction of the Executive Committee, she is also assisting in a research project presently to be mentioned. Thus, after nearly sixteen years, economic research has acquired its place in the sun at Harvard University, with every prospect that it will thrive and demonstrate its right to permanent support...