Word: room
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week little Lizzie went down to Ferguson's room to reprove him again. "Walter," she piped, outside his door. "Be quiet! Stop making that noise...
Last week in a small dining room at the U. S. Immigration station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, these questions & answers started and summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping...
...Japanese steamer dropped its hook on the only public telephone cable to Angel Island, breaking the line and isolating the Bridges proceedings for a whole day. A telegraph operator grabbed a knife and went berserk in the room next to the trial chamber, had to be overpowered. Otherwise the performance went along quietly enough, covering ground familiar to reporters of the long, moot Bridges story...
...insurance collector, was coming down the stairs. He saw Ferguson, naked, reach out and seize little Lizzie, whisk her into his room, slam the door. Fox ran for a policeman. "You can't come in here!" Ferguson shouted to them. "Nobody can come in here but Jesus Christ...
...United was no longer a united family. Its chief counsel (also a director) was none other than former SEC General Counsel Johnny Burns. He and belly-laughing Floyd Carlisle wanted to play ball with SEC immediately. Chief on the opposite side of the table in United's board room was Morgan Partner George Whitney...