Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Martoccio's point is well-taken. Elliott Roosevelt is not, per se, a figure of national consequence. But a divorce and speedy remarriage in the nation's first family was conspicuous if not important. And historians of the future will point to the Roosevelt-Donner-Googins switch as the "first White House divorce." Had TIME reported it elsewhere than under The Presidency, the place would have been Milestones, not People.-ED. Rules for Asterisks...
...clues of incendiarism. They questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric pull-switch which Labor Inspector John Roach found in the ruins of the plant. New Jersey's labor laws forbid such switches near inflammable materials...
...graduate of the University of Chicago (1897), Secretary Ickes began practicing law in 1907, still has a small office on La Salle Street. In 1912 he became a rampant Bull Mooser but in 1916 was behind Hughes, only to switch to Cox four years later. In 1924 he managed Hiram Johnson's abortive Illinois campaign...
...life. There are times when she wishes she could believe in "God and the Daily Mail and Mother India." Physiological studies do not wholly satisfy her. ("If you knew what was going on inside you, you would probably be bitterly offended.") In her quandary she is about to switch her allegiance from Otto (Mr. Lunt), a painter, to his good friend, playwriting Leo (Mr. Coward). According to Leo, he and Gilda have just gone for "an unpremeditated roll...
...first. Loth to help puff a competitor's stunt, NBC banned all mention of the brother-hunt when Burns & Allen were invited as guests of Chase & Sanborn's Eddie Cantor. Fleischmann's Yeast's Rudy Vallee. Crooner Vallee was actually switched off the air when he inadvertently referred to it. But since Eddie Cantor threatened to work in a reference in such a way that NBC would have to switch station announcements, NBC's protests have gone pretty much unheeded...