Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover returned to his private office, picked up his telephone to inquire about his good friend Secretary of War Good, then on his way to the operating room at Walter Reed Hospital. The three visitors returned to the Treasury by the back way. That evening Secretary Mellon announced the President's plan to lop 1% from 1929 income and corporation taxes...
...President's announcement stirred the business world. He himself studied lists of industrial leaders to summon to the Cabinet Room, eyed such names as Owen D. Young, Thomas William Lament. Julius Rowland Barnes, Daniel Willard, William Green. Four group conferences were arranged: 1) potent railroad presidents; 2) tycoons of industry and finance; 3) husbandmen; 4) laboring...
...guilty. Finally he had to join in, but like the majority of the other jurors, only with the understanding that there would be a recommendation for mercy. . . . He voted for conviction because he was worried about his wife who was an expectant mother. . . . He told me the jury room was very cold and he was very ill and spitting blood. . . . When the time came for the jury to report, he told me his resolution failed, but the others rallied and bullied him into leaving the jury room. He told me he wanted to give an affidavit of his reactions during...
Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
...drinks coffee on the go. From 3:30 to 5:30 she rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that is Le Gallienne?suits, stationery, draperies?is a rich blue...