Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members who are more concerned with Depression II than with their officers' funds, the issues seemed remote indeed. President Martin & board found Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed. Hall guilty of conspiring with Stalinist Communists to wreck U. A. W., expelled them.* Convicted and suspended on the lesser charge of opposing the Martin clique's group insurance plan was Vice President Walter Wells...
Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket's real boss (TIME, June 6), he made a real stir in city politics...
...camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic work to students, part-time public work to vagrants. Across the U. S., youth won wages and self-confidence as they catalogued, filed, checked records, cleared parks and playgrounds, plowed, harrowed, reaped, graded, dumped, filled, drained...
...Manhattan one day last week a 21-year-old cameraman named George Smooke focused his Contax at an apartment-house window, snapped a blurry but reproducible photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...
...good, pipe-smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an occasional tourist or student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical map. Two years later the first big Salzburg Festival was given, with a gala outdoor performance of von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Everyman) as its principal drawing...