Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was mysterious enough, but it looked as if the man with the red face was the missing link and that with his capture all could be explained. Three days after Keene's body was found, into the police station he walked-and out again, as free as ever. If anything, his story only made the Potomac Mystery more mysterious...
...Detroit last week newshawks hunted up Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, radio priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich. Save when he announced that he was converting land across from his Shrine into a park, and when he ordered a gasoline filling station built there to force the hand of a filling station proprietor who would not sell, Father Coughlin has been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin...
Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...
...riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical to George & Jock in composition...
...know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from '21' standing there with $5,000 cash just in case we needed...