Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score more mayors of a score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats, loosened their collars, lighted cigars, settled dowrn heavily in brocaded chairs. Mayor Curley, with his shirt sleeves rolled up and sweat trickling down his face, presided over what quickly became an experience meeting about the hardships of being a mayor these dark days...
...that afternoon the galleries and orchestra of the Kroll Opera House, temporary seat of the Reichstag, were jammed. The entire diplomatic corps was there; deputies and Nazi officials jammed the aisles. Prominent in the distinguished visitors' gallery was Former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, in uniform. In his brown shirt, Adolf Hitler soberly mounted the rostrum and began to read his speech, seldom lifting his eyes from his manuscript, indulging in none of his usual oratorical flourishes. Excerpts...
...Georgia, was admitted to the bar despite his refusal to study criminal law, took on Southern Railway as a client. In 1897 he married Gussie Grady, daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, prophet of the "New South," burier of the bloody shirt. One day ten years ago "Gene" Black, noticing that banks closed in midafternoon, decided banking was easier than the law. Shortly thereafter he accepted the presidency of Atlanta Trust Co., discovered his mistake. In 1928 he was chosen Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. He lives out on fashionable Peachtree...
Died. Alba Marshall Ide, 66, shirt-&-collar tycoon (George P. Ide & Co.); in Troy...
...which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt throws herself into teaching, baby-culture,* charity and social crusades is rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head of a cheerful crowd of factory girls she marched round & round the D & D plant...