Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garland Sevier Ferguson Jr., 59, a North Carolina Democrat who was appointed by Calvin Coolidge and reappointed by President Roosevelt though rated the most conservative member of the commission. Much of his legal experience was gained as a lawyer for Southern Ry. In the general division of FTC duties, tall, baldish, able Mr. Ferguson tends to trials and examinations...
...hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ayres was for years about the only leaf on the Kansas Democratic tree...
...with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...
...acquired by either husband or wife after marriage becomes community property, owned half & half by either spouse. Mae West's 1935 income was $480,000. Her current worth, mostly acquired since the 1911 wedding, is estimated as $3,000,000. Mae West's husband might not be tall, dark nor handsome but the inside of his head was apparently not as bald as the outside. He had said he wished to vindicate his honor, money was of secondary moment. Snorted Mrs. Szatkus last week, "We were married but we never lived together as man and wife." Snorted...
...after 24 years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers...