Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somewhere in the back of his greying head, the President kept his plans for making the momentously planned Wage and Hour Division into an efficient U. S. agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer...
...were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high of 487,000 pieces on Sept...
...Mirrors. In The Netherland Plaza Hotel's gaudy, marbled Hall of Mirrors, A. F. of L. President William Green convened some 500 delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy...
...second wireless informed Captain Chelton of the warning, instructed him to search every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...
...Gold. Horace Heidt's kampuskut orchestra has been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered...