Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Malone of Smithfield, Pa. received a letter last month identifying him as WPA Worker No. 4426-38632 and assigning him to work on a local road project. His parents, on relief, did nothing about it; obviously it was a clerical error. When Richard received another letter, firing him from the job for failure to report, his brother Albert, 20, went to WPA headquarters, explained that Richard, aged 7, was in the second grade. WPA headquarters then cut the Malone family off relief. At length Brother Albert got himself certified as the "priority worker" of the family and was awarded...
Last week, Richard Malone received a WPA check for $6.54 for 13 hours of manual labor. Father Malone returned the check, but this time the story got into the newspapers. Suspended under suspicion of collusion were two WPA timekeepers, Gilbert Colley and Max Whoolery, and Richard Malone actually got a job posing for photographers, sitting down, with pick & shovel beside...
Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...
...startled the Exchange first by leaving the door of his tawny-paneled office open to anyone who wanted to see him-a change from the days when Richard Whitney sat there in regal isolation. He irked crusty conservatives by letting photographers attend his first board meeting and also take pictures on the floor during trading hours. But chiefly he astonishes his broker associates by eating at the Automat, living at the Yale Club, spurning an automobile as too expensive, preferring to study or sit in a theatre balcony to splurging at some swank Long Island resort...
...safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with SEC to affirm publicly the partnership between himself and Douglas...