Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metamorphosis. Three times since the Civil War has the Democratic Party been sobered by the awful power of simultaneous possession of the Presidency and Congress. It was Pat Harrison's destiny to be a senior Senator on the third occasion. No politician in memory has undergone so profound and startling a metamorphosis. As if W. C. Fields were to begin playing Othello, Senator Harrison has become a legislative drudge...
...patronage. Last year Senator Bilbo used it, on the expiration of Governor Conner's term, to get his friend Hugh White elected Governor. When Governor White gave Pat Harrison credit for getting big Federal appropriations for Mississippi, including a $42,000,000 highway fund, the Senior Senator stood up before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes, a son-in-law of Pat Harrison's old patron...
Blonde, 17-year-old Louise Booth Morley, daughter of Author Christopher Morley and a senior at Manhattan's Hunter College High School, took a three-hour examination given by the League of Nations Association to students of 1,248 high schools, made the best mark, won a trip to Europe...
...past two or three decades neither the practices nor the policies of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange have changed materially. President Howard Butcher Jr., senior partner in a local brokerage firm, carries on the ancient traditions despite the half-hearted threats of revolt by younger members. Excitement is occasionally provided on the floor by Salt Dome Oil, a mysterious issue which moves as much as 12 points between sales. As characteristic of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange today as it was in the 1870's is a deal of fast trading in local traction securities, foundation of most of Philadelphia...
...with a skill that renders the character quite lovable. John Emery has taken over Brian Aherne's part as the swaggering very English Earl of Warwick and does it quite as well as did the estimable Mr. Aherne. Eduardo Ciannelli as the Bishop of Beauvais, Charles Waldron as the senior French cleric, and George Courloris as the irascible aide to Warwick all turn in admirable performances...