Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Rainey and Representatives Snell, Englebright, Byrns and Greenwood the members of the Democratic party--loyal men and true--joined with members of the opposition to extend the glad hand of welcome to their President. A delegation boarded the train to assure him of their joy at his safe return, of their continued support and of their allegiance to the principles for which he stood. The occasion was further enhanced by the presence of the Marine Band which attempted to express the same happy sentiments in an even more vociferous fashion. It was by no means a mere party affair...
...buildings totally condemned the Board moved 3,000 children. To house them it pitched $50,000 worth of big tents. Safe schools now run double shifts and all of Berkeley's 30,000 schoolchildren are on part time. Next week a committee of architects and engineers is to present a rebuilding program which the Board estimates will cost $4,000,000. It has applied to the Public Works Administration for 30% of this expenditure, expects to float a bond issue for the rest...
...drive on fire traps, Commissioner Post recently swore he would compel all landlords, many of whom cannot pay taxes, to make their properties safe and sanitary. Vincent Astor countered with an offer to sell his slum holdings for their assessed value ($800,000). Other large slum owners like the Stuyvesants. Folsams and Columbia University chimed in with offers to cooperate. But for true low-cost housing even the assessed valuation is too high. Everybody wants slum-clearance including the landlords and the mortgage holders. But the landlords and the mortgage holders want their money first. A recent Manhattan Tenement House...
...friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where he is safe from extradition. Only when the harbor of Piraeus rose before the Maiotis' disreputable bow did he know what had happened. Then he promptly had another seizure...
...race, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy, Count Rossi de Montelera. heading for the starting line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give the Count time to patch the hole in the Barracuda's bow. It made small difference in the result. His teammate Becchi, veteran automobile and motorboat racer, who wears plugs in his ears because years of driving high-powered motors have made...