Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk read, Mrs. Norton took a large American Beauty rose, labeled "Huey Pierce Long," from a small page and placed it in a large silver vase furnished for the occasion by a florist. One by one, as the roll of the dead was called, she added six other roses labeled Thomas David Schall, R. Garden, Charles Vilas , Truax, Henry Mahlon Kimball, Wesley Lloyd, Stephen Andrew Rudd...
Last week that program passed a historic milestone when Chairman Millard E. Tydings of the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs quietly rose on the Senate floor and announced: "Mr. President, I shall send to the desk shortly a bill proposing to give the people of Puerto Rico the option of becoming independent as a result of a national referendum. . . . The bill will be introduced with the support of the Administration...
...work as does Tennessee's Kenneth Douglas McKellar, who as chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended by a House committee, accused Director Hoover of "running wild" (TIME, April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive, by any act or vote of mine," cried Democratic Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas, "one hope in the bosom of a gangster...
That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported...
...still sells hats, Anna E. Bolton was retired lately from the china department. Missing at last week's performance was Tenor Carl Kjellberg, the Chorus librarian who works in the supply room. So excited was he about the concert that he had a stroke just before the curtain rose, had to be hospitalized. While there he received a letter from Founder Towsley, who makes a practice of writing to every chorister who is ill. Many of his singers have better voices than jobs in the store...