Word: rich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show in new faces, new and more progressive policies at the top. But the dominant figures in A. F. of L. are still such old-line, hardshell, Laborites as the Carpenters' Republican Bill Hurcheson, the little photo-engraving union's tiny Republican Matt Woll, the Bricklayers' rich, potent Harry Bates. The man most likely to lead the new forces, when and if they break into power, is smart, Democratic Dan Tobin. It was open talk around the convention that he would go after Bill Green's job in 1940, striking a strategic bargain meanwhile with Hutcheson...
...Gallogly, a student at Oglethorpe (Hearst-admired) University, had a hand in killing a drugstore cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last May married...
...Month of October is also the month of Hospital drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...
Mark Twain once took the trouble to dig out and proclaim at length (in Life on the Mississippi) some comparative figures on America's age. Without whooping it up as Mark did, Historians Commager & Nevins are equally concerned to demonstrate the long, rich past which Americans seldom realize. Collected in this book are about 1,130 pages of documents, from the Journal of Christopher Columbus to Charles Lindbergh's We, which make up a history told by the historical. Samples...