Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal struggle boiled. Curran had the support of Vice President Jack Lawrenson and soft-spoken Treasurer Hedley Stone. Curran's enemies are led by three smart Communist-line operators: Vice President Joe Stack; Jamaican Negro Secretary Ferdinand Smith; weary-looking Vice President Howard McKenzie. Stack, Smith and McKenzie have one objective: to toss Curran out and realign N.M.U. solidly with Bridges and the Party. Curran, who once thought he could run the Reds-and sometimes even run with them-knows that this time he will be lucky if he survives them...
Monroe and Isabel Smith, two U.S. schoolteachers shepherding a student tour of Europe, brought the idea home with them in 1933 and a year later opened the first U.S. hostel at Northfield, Mass. By its twelfth birthday last week the A.Y.H. boasted 250 hostels, scattered from New England to California...
...more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia Lee with the greatest blues shouter of them all, the late Bessie Smith...
When Bessie Smith was singing Young Woman's Blues and Empty Bed Blues in Chicago in the 1920s, Julia Lee was singing the same kind of songs with the late Benny Moten's band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics...
...wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice president. But the bungling announcements did not mention that Smith actually wanted to stay...