Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before he appointed a new Senator. Governor Browning was going to Washington anyhow to attend a conference of Southern Governors and utilities commissioners. When he shook off the crowd of politicians at the funeral and boarded his train East, whom should he find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee-one of those prominently mentioned for Senator-as his traveling companion. When his train arrived in Washington, Governor Browning dashed through a crowd of importuning politicians, one of whom almost tore his coat off, and sped to the Wrhite...
City Hall. One of the finest examples of 18th Century architecture in the U. S., New York's frequently neglected city hall can hold its own with anything in Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston. It contains antique furniture and historical portraits of great importance. Prize: Telegraph Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette...
...right track, Publisher Abell spread himself more & more for stories. He ran special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the "magnetic telegraph" of Samuel Finley Breese Morse became practical in 1844. Mr. Abell soon woke up to its value, put in a newswire...
...Labor Department's Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers, son & namesake of the late American Federation of Labor's founder, celebrated his soth anniversary in Government service in Washington. Declared he: "If I were a wealthy man, I would want nothing better to occupy my time and mind than this job I've got." After booking steamer reservations to England for himself and three blonde secretaries, Thomas Franklyn (''Tommy") Manville Jr., playboy asbestos heir, canceled the trip, explaining that he had reneged, not because his estranged fourth wife Marcelle Edwards had reserved passage on the same boat...
...took the jury but six hours to acquit Frank Zintak, who returned to the courtroom when the verdict was brought in long enough to repeat Samuel Insull's lines: "I never in my life did anything wrong." Following a revealing investigation into the Zintak jury's joyride Judge Benjamin P. Epstein last week held the entire panel in contempt of court. Five jurors who drank & danced were sentenced to serve five days in jail. Six who drank but did not dance received three-day sentences. A 37-year-old telephone mechanic named Leo Fahey, who merely watched...