Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More, More!" The President's first speech helped to buck up Republican campaign morale. Republican editors talked of a turn in the tide. But while President Hoover was speaking at Des Moines two Democrats, by shaking hands at Albany, stole the next morning's headlines. Grain prices broke to the season's low while the stockmarket suffered the sharpest decline in nearly a year...
Fortuitously or not it occurred just when President Hoover was breaking his candidacial silence at Des Moines and stole its share of the headlines next morning (see col. i). Democratic headquarters had repeatedly been told that a good word from the Brown Derby would swing a million votes to the party. Republican headquarters have counted on Al Smith's sulk to turn New England to Hoover. After the Albany convention it became known that Air. Smith would campaign for his party's ticket in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New York, New Jersey...
...Papal Secretary of State, opened last week the first consecration of a U. S. bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican diplomatic corps and many another...
...Philadelphia, Wallace F. Mitchell, unemployed machinist, stole a bottle of milk from Grocer Bernard Beese. Grocer Beese shot & killed Machinist Mitchell. Widow Mitchell doubted that her husband had stolen the milk, said he had left the house to pick up cigaret stubs...
...maniac, no art critic, was the Milwaukee thief who last week stole six paintings from the watchmanless Milwaukee Art Institute. He took Roy Brown's October, Trepied France, Cullen Yates's In the Delaware Valley, Peter Rotier's Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...