Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also orchids to Harry Hopkins on his remarks. But who wouldn't like an excuse to visit White Sulphur Springs this weather...
...from White Sulphur Springs scurried Charles Bismark Ames, chairman of Texas Corp., bearing a copy of a Recovery program drafted by 90 U. S. tycoons (see p. 10). Into the White House he rushed eagerly, expecting to present his document at once to the President. Instead Pat McKenna, Presidential switchman, shunted him in to see Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. The President, said Mr. Mclntyre, just had too many appointments to see Mr. Ames that day. Perhaps Mr. Ames could stay over a day or two? Mr. Ames could not. So he left his program with Secretary Mclntyre...
...Allred fulfilled his prophecy. In 1932 he was reelected. His career as Attorney General made news in Texas. For years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
...right hands of 90 tycoons last week clasped one another at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. There at the call of the recovery committees of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers were Owen D. Young (General Electric), Silas Hardy Strawn (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Henry I. Harriman (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Clinton Lloyd Bardo (Manufacturers Association), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), Paul W. Litchfield (Goodyear Tires), Charles Bismark Ames (Texas Corp.), Ernest T. Weir (National Steel), Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotives), Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse...
Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "Don't make me cry: it's Christmas time. Some people spending two or three days thinking how relief should be handled and deciding in the sacred precincts of White Sulphur Springs on sending a few baskets of groceries to the unemployed, are not of much importance...