Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Hines has never been Tammany's titular Boss, like Richard Croker who was hounded out of the U. S., or William Tweed who was locked behind bars in 1873 for negligence and misconduct in office. Nor has he ever held a job as exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils...
...Cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley of the Baltimore Sun pictured Franklin Roosevelt as an Edgar Bergen with a whole lapful of Charlie McCarthy Senators all shouting "Yes!" and "Lil Davey" Lewis (Representative David Lewis, backed by the White House against Senator Tydings) climbing up to join them...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 3:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake Lucerne, in Maria Luigi Cherubini's Anacreon Overture, Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude...
...York ten hours, 32 minutes and 20 seconds later, faster by a half-hour than any transport plane had ever made the trip before. At an average altitude of 17,000 feet, Howard Hughes and companions found the new oxygen mask comfortable, efficient. Designed by Mayo Clinic Surgeon Richard Lovelace, the mask mixes air with oxygen, eliminates sore throats from raw oxygen fed by other devices. Unimpressed was Howard Hughes when unofficial timers informed him he had set a new record for big ships. Said he: "I am not interested any more in breaking records...
...readers are used to Englishmen's relentless output of travel books about the U. S. But for an American to write a travel book about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than...