Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planked over their skylights. Boston's Mayor Curley was disturbed at 3 a. m. by two intoxicated legionaries who kept putting their heads out of the window on the floor below and shouting: "We want Bonus!" Finally he doused them with a pitcher of ice water and the remark: "There's a bonus for you." Special agents sent from Washington raided five headquarters in two days, seized a good supply of liquor. Members of the gist Division, incensed, wired a protest to Washington, began to campaign against President Hoover. Legionaries were struck with the number of tipsy women...
...White and so close a friend of the late Walter Charles White that a type of dual management almost existed between the two companies. When in 1929 President White, an expert driver, was killed in an accident, the directors elected Mr. Woodruff to succeed him. He accepted with the remark, "I guess I will have to live in a Pullman." For a year Mr. Woodruff held both presidencies. Then he resigned as White's chief executive and became chairman. For some time it has been rumored that he and other big White holders wanted to sell out in order...
While the Coolidge article was political gospel for all G. O. Partisans, it prompted such an irreverent individual as Funny man Will Rogers to remark: "Calvin Coolidge has had everybody on the anxious seat for months as to who he would sup port in the November handicap. Campaign managers and politicians have been dogging his rubber-booted steps. But it took, not a politician, but a commercial-minded gentleman (proprietor of America's biggest nickelodeon), Mr. George Horace Lorimer, not with words or editorial persuasion but with his signature on a small piece of paper, payable...
Without going into the irrelevancy of detail, Shaughnessy-Sullivan gives the impression of having said what there was to say about his microcosmos, drops many a memorable remark by the way. Novel-addicts will cheer his dictum: "Novels, in particular, enlarge one's life. More than any other branch of literature they make one acquainted with the panorama of life, and with the variety of human emotions." His view on war is more practical than Kellogg's and the late Aristide Briand's: "It seems to me that the only way to prevent future wars...
...railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished." Last week the veracity of his remark was once more impressed upon him. After a decade in the presidency of Canada's great public-owned rail system he was forced to resign. And while CNR's service has benefited immeasurably from Thorntonian touches, his job was far from finished, the CNR was far from becoming a moneymaker...