Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sick and tired, Philadelphia's Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson announced he would presently take a two-month vacation. Instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer accused him of making a deal with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned...
York area, the union last April won a State board election by a majority of 36 votes in 2,520, was then certified as bargaining agent. Metropolitan's famed Attorney Samuel Seabury asked New York Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer to set aside the order. Grounds: the State Labor Relations act is unconstitutional; in any event it does not cover insurance agents; "The only Constitutional sanction for [union recognition by State decree] is to be found in the Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia." Last week Justice Steuer turned down Mr. Seabury, upheld I.I.A.U...
...what many Britons hoped was a slap at Adolf Hitler their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...Vocabulary of Samuel Sewall from 1673 to 1699. ¶ Life After Death. ¶ Laughing and Crying of Pre-School Children. ¶How Christmas Came to the Sunday Schools...
When the late Dr. Samuel Smith Drury was Rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.), he was offered two other jobs: the Episcopal coadjutor-bishopric of Pennsylvania, the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige...