Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise in seven years from an obscure Tuberculosis & Health Association worker to the front rank of Federal officialdom is one of the major phenomena of the New Deal. It could not have been done by a character less elastic and resilient. He has not let his prodigious capacity for work stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife...
...Reds and the Cleveland Indians, who were leading the American League (in a tie with the New York Yankees) on the Fourth. Level-headed experts, however, still favored the Yankees and Giants to meet in another subway series in New York City next October. If the Reds, who were seven games behind the league-leading Giants last week, should come home in front, Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for the Pirates (1925) and Cardinals (1928) during his 15-year career as big-league manager,* will be the first manager ever to win a pennant in three different cities...
Comparatively stable financially, only 126 have folded or merged during the past seven years. Their average circulation is nearly 2,000. They serve more than half the population of the U. S. While their columns now include many of the features found in dailies, and streamlined autos have joined the pills among the ads, they remain the most authentic expressions of U. S. rural life...
While Electric Bond & Share took the fight to the Supreme Court, only to lose the first round last spring (TIME, April 4), United Corp. tried to persuade SEC to let it reorganize as an investment trust. SEC turned down no less than seven such proposals (TIME, Feb. 7), and after the Supreme Court's decision, United had to register with SEC after...
When he was growing wealthy and in danger of arrest, she tried to burn his incriminating papers, failed, and watched him go to prison. For the seven years that he was there, frightened Julie rebounded between the stuffy, self-righteous world of her sister, and the rebellious, desperate, exciting world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with...