Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain to evoke a stream of comment, some of it sober and sympathetic, some of it hectic and immoderate. The temptation to dramatize his rise from poverty and obscurity to the throne of a harassed metropolis will not be resisted for long. Still, it is true that his stewardship was, for two years, remarkably well acquitted. And he did come perilously close to confounding his party by an unwelcome fulfillment of their promise that he would be "the best mayor Chicago ever...
...Boss John Francis Curry bunched all Tammany's local candidates. Judged by the applause of 21,000 Democrats, Al Smith was the evening's favorite. For an old-fashioned flaying of the G. 0. P. he took as his text: ''Give an account of the stewardship, for now thou canst be steward no longer." The Smith speech was liberally sprinkled with: "Listen to this-it's a hot tamale! . . . Let's look at the record. . . . Then what happened? . . . Now get this!" Governor Roosevelt concluded his last major address: "The millions of unchronicled heroes...
Quick to express regret were CNR's employes, among whom Sir Henry was especially popular. "During Sir Henry's stewardship," their spokesman said, "cooperation between labor and management . . . has been developed to a degree unsurpassed anywhere in the railroad industry. Sir Henry leaves behind him one of the finest monuments in human relations ever erected in large scale industry...
...Cross provided 9,000 Ib. of Farm Board flour, but that did not go far to fill the stomachs of nearly 20,000 men, among whom twelve cases of dysentery were discovered. General Pelham Glassford produced the last few dollars in the B. E. F. treasury and renounced his stewardship. George Alman, leader of the 500 Communist veterans, was heard to remark: "I know where there are warehouses bursting with food in this town. I'm going to march the boys down there and let them help themselves...
...President of Czechoslovakia is famed snowy-crested Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. During the War he played adroitly on U. S. sympathies, pictured poignantly the hardships of his people, persuaded the Peace Conference to entrust to Czechoslovak stewardship numerous minority peoples like the Ruthenians. Last week the aged President and "Father of his Country" seemed to agree with Prague bureaucrats that it would be dangerous to let Bishop Papp feed the Ruthenians...