Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate side, Administration witnesses hardly seemed to be trying. Both Treasury Secretary John Snyder and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Thomas McCabe were plainly reluctant to discuss price controls. Said Secretary Snyder: "I have stated many times that I am not in favor of price controls. Nor am I in favor of castor oil. But if I've got an ailment and it's going to save my life, then I'll take...
...They led Ruth Brown Snyder from her steel cage tonight. Then the powerful guards thrust her irrevocably into the obscene, sprawling oak arms of the ugly electric chair . . . The body that once throbbed with the joy of her sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray...
...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
...extensively planned program, under the chairmanship of Theodore, Morrison '23. Lecturer in English, will feature talks by Mr. B. C. Tilghman, production manager of the trade department at Houghten Mifflin publishers: Donald B. Snyder, publishers of the Atlantic Monthly; and Thomas G. Wilson, Director of the Harvard University Press...
Oklahomans had never heard such talk from one of their own leading educators. Said Laurence Hasbrouck Snyder, dean of the graduate college at the University of Oklahoma: "If universities, which are supposedly the epitome of culture and learning in our society, cannot practice the principles of democracy and illustrate them by example, where in the world will they be illustrated and practiced?" Dean Snyder is one of the nation's top geneticists, and what he has learned from his study of heredity and what his university practices are two different things. Negro Ada Sipuel Fisher has been vainly seeking...