Word: seconder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...background was another Democrat-Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, no orator but a great conniver. At his home the President's opponents met secretly, unsuspected. And another Democrat headed the Judiciary Committee which had the bill in charge: Ashurst of Arizona. That elegant obfuscator contributed nobly the second essential of McNary's stratagem: delay...
Marriage revealed. Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), and Socialite Mrs. Dorothy Ludington Whitney; his third, her second; in Manhattan, four days after Actress Adrienne Allen divorced him (TIME, July...
...Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
...week ending July 1 was 14% ahead of last year and slightly ahead of 1937, added this to Bond & Share-New Deal good-will and the chances of more SEC-holding company deals. Result: the Dow-Jones average of 15 utility stocks rose for eleven consecutive days, making the second quarter of 1939 look like a straight line advance for at least this group...
...professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...