Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anger that he had not publicly vented on the Senate now poured out of Franklin Roosevelt upon the United Press. In a special statement that marked a new high in bad blood between him and the working press, he called the U. P.'s story false. The U. P. stuck to its guns and, when Mr. Roosevelt's next Neutrality move did come, had the satisfaction of noting that it was a moderate statement by Mr. Hull, not a Roosevelt ripsnorter...
...Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor vote is extremely important; and C. I. O. and A. F. of L., U. S. Labor's two bitterly rival wings...
...Manhattan by special car arrived the entourage of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, former President of the Dominican Republic, now Commander in Chief of its army. Fresh from a round of receptions in Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria, went off on another round of receptions, including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second...
...groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...