Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Perkins keeps her department serene but Agriculture under Secretary Wallace and his colleague AAAdministrator Peek is restive. So are the Interior and Public Works offices under Mr. Ickes, sweating to put Federal billions to work. There are many cross-assignments, touching the Treasury's work. A switch of last week in the Home Loan Bank Board, stepping Vice Chairman John H. Fahey up to replace William Francis ("Steamboat Bill") Stevenson, was significant. Stevenson is a big, loose-jointed South Carolina politician, a defeated Congressman. Fahey is a Massachusetts publisher and businessman. He has been doing most of Stevenson...
...third and most probable course is to switch the case to another charge: that of being a Communist. By the present Nazi laws, membership in that party can be construed as high treason; and on that basis Torgler, Dmitroff, and Ten-off may be returned to their prison camps for life. To say that this is postfacto and the sentence unjust, may be right but it will not affect the court's decision. The Nazis don't dare to back down; and the alternatives are, as Pollux termed it succinctly, disgusting. Castor
...Anacostia River into Washington. Before dawn along came the Crescent Limited, crack Southern Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
...cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office...
...days later someone snapped an electric light switch in the joint office of Chiropractors Charles Baumler and Peter J. Barbour. Two bombs attached to the light system splintered the office, injuring Dr. Barbour and four patients. In an adjoining office a typist named Helen Bosland "felt something snap" in her head. Afterwards she complained of severe headaches. One day last week she died, of sinus trouble and heart dilation. Week ago Chiropractor William Cooper was awakened by a baby crying next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard...