Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief economy fight (TIME, Feb. 6), sought to prevent restoration of $17,206,000 for construction of TVA dams at Watts Bar and Gilbertsville on the Tennessee River, which had been stricken out by the House. Mr. Adams' efforts were reinforced by Ohio's tall, squinty Robert Alphonso Taft, the new Senator of noble name and nominal fame in current Presidential polls, who had chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor leader, Oregon's McNary, asked a quorum call, to which 88 Senators responded...
Alton, Ill.'s Robert Wadlow, tallest man in medical history (TIME, March 9, 1936), celebrated his 21st birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
...greatest and most enjoyable journalistic hoax in history. His accounts of London fires, plagues, streetwalkers, ghosts and insect pests would be welcome copy for any Sunday supplement. When Reporter Defoe went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock on the nose...
...Robert Moses, Ph.D., New York City's scholarly Park Commissioner, will be the Golden Lecturer this spring, it was announced by the University yesterday. He will speak on April...
Notes between the notes: Truly magnificent swing criticism is advanced in a mildly insane article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James...