Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President summoned to the White House Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel Co. (National Steel), ordered him to settle the labor row in his mills (TIME, Dec. 25). He also received Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit. When the priest emerged from the White House, he reported: "I discovered that Mr. Roosevelt is about 20 years ahead of the thought that is current in the country today...
Invisible to the audience is a "bridge" above the little stage on which a row of leather-aproned Italians bend over a rail. One operator holds in his fingers the dozen fish-line strings attached to Don Juan's flexible joints. Another dangles the little peasant girl. When Don Juan crosses the stage, the steady-handed operators exchange their rack of strings with incredible dexterity. Husband & wife, father & son, these operators have been bred in the art of Italian marionet work...
Nobody cheered last week when the Treasury Department, just before the end of the first half of its fiscal year, found itself with a $14,768.621 surplus. It was merely a bookkeepers' surplus-a row of eight figures in black at the bottom of a column of current running expenses. The real story was on the other side of the ledger. To nine fat figures in red labeled "Emergency Funds," a tenth was last week added as the 1934 deficit climbed over the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year...
...Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...
...ruthless betrayal of trusts which would make Captain Kidd and the Brotherhood look like second rate pikers. Some at least have met their due, and the only bright spot in the picture is that it's a rare prison of the better class that hasn't its Bankers' Row these days...