Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more cheering decors of the Potomac shore-line is the vision of that veteran inflationist, Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, in cahoots with Mr. Carl Conway, the president of the board of the Continental Can Company. Normally, one would suppose them to be separated by intellectual and political incompatibilities too great to be reconciled. That these should have been forgotten, even temporarily, is a beautiful tribute to the power of an ideal. Human frailties, vanities, all the pathetic weaknesses of politicians and capitalists recede into the deep diminuendo of momentary oblivion. Oklahoma and Continental Can are at one! Osanna...
...largest Democratic majority in Illinois primaries. Further corroboration of a Democratic wind: all 18 Democratic Congressmen were renominated save one who did not have the backing of the State organization. All six Republican Congressmen were also renominated save one. Socialite James Simpson Jr. of Chicago's North Shore, who alone criticized the New Deal...
...military school in the East) the Cords live in a fine home in Beverly Hills outside Los Angeles where he went to high school and ran a car-washing business. G. H. Q. of Cord Corp. is at No. 105 West Adams St., Chicago. In the swank Lake Shore Drive district Cord maintains a large apartment. When visiting Manhattan he lives expensively in a suite at the WaldorfAstoria. Over the U. S. sweeps the Kingdom of Cord: at Camden, his $15,000,000 New York Shipbuilding Corp.: in Kalamazoo, his $4,500,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest...
...sign on the door leading from the men's locker rooms into the tan-tiled swimming pool of Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club last week said: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits.'' The ladies in the pool were the members of that little band of champion swimmers whose wet faces and shining legs make a semi-annual fresco for newspaper sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson...
Unhappily, the sailors in the painting, like Mr. Cadmus, are employees of the Government, and the Navy Department has spent a lot of time and money in combatting the tradition that its ship personnel on shore leave habitually disports itself with liquor and the ladies of the yellow filet. Admiral Rodman, who qualified as an art critic by commanding the naval forces overseas in the World War, complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy...