Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When spade & shovel were deep in the dumps of Flushing Meadows, there were still no plans for exhibiting U. S. art at the New York World's Fair. Alarmed artists' associations all over the country started pounding at Grover Whalen. Eventually Mr. Whalen announced that, under the chairmanship of A. Conger Goodyear, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Fair would put on a big contemporary U. S. art show...
Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
...personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which he held for a decade. In 1933 he went to Paramount...
...most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
...shovel coal out now, the Council would liberalize benefits all along the line. Instead of waiting until 1942 to begin monthly benefit payments and making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...