Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
...cold and windy afternoon as the Vagabond trudged sturdily along beside the towering stones of Widener, shielding his face from the piercing rushes of wind that came around the corner out of the northwest. From the right, in the direction of the Union, a dignified procession of silk hats and cutaways suddenly came into view, everybody in a warm after-luncheon mood. But the Vagabond had seen silk hats, and even younger ones, in the Yard many times before, and he prepared at once to resume his reflections...
Before starting for Washington to confer with President Hoover on War Debts, President-elect Roosevelt spent a quietly busy week which, for him, began in his big, high-backed mahogany bed in the Albany Executive Mansion. Recovering from a mild attack of influenza, he wore a blue silk dressing gown over a white sweater and pajamas when a dozen newsmen trooped into his high-ceiled bedroom for an interview. His bed was littered with letters and telegrams. On a table stood a glass of milk...
...Pabst Corp. when one of their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer brought lean days a blue strip of paper supplanted the silk ribbon but Pabst stuck to its trademark...
Divorced, Ruth Goldstein; by Julius J. Goldstein, Manhattan silk merchant; in Manhattan. Grounds: misconduct with Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...