Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Raymond H. Combs of Churchville, N. Y., who looks like a slim but prosperous banker, made an even moi professional speech. Said he: "We're the only ones in the organization that provide complete postal service. They count on us for . . . their stamps . . . give us their packages . . . send money orders through us." In fact, he said, the smiling servants of the R. F. D. ought to be called, not "letter carriers" but "post offices on wheels...
...than their share in the celebrations that marked the hero's return. Star reporters wrote front-page stories in fake Irish dialect. As a million people watched him go up Broadway, Corrigan's modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil in his eyes." Said William D. O'Brien of the World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile...
...imposed by the assistant to the national director, shrewd, brown-eyed Mrs. Increase Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone...
...financial job of Wall Street- president of the New York Stock Exchange. To the general public, which had heard rumors that the Exchange was considering for its first paid president such assorted personages as North Carolina's onetime Governor O. Max Gardner ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, this was something of a surprise. To Wall Street, however, it seemed the logical climax of the liberal Putsch which has conquered the Exchange in the last six months...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...