Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bradley, Fifth Earl of Craven, 35; at Pau, France. At 19. he married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude...
...everyone knows, he left Harvard Law School and began his noble career on the bench. Many of Professor Frankfurter's admirers were genuinely disappointed that he did not do likewise. In times such as these when great social changes are underway and governments are complied by events to travel uncharted courses, it is important that vacancies in the courts of law are filled by agile-minded men who understand the underlying currents of our civilization. Yet Professor Frankfurter has decided that legal education has a higher claim...
...must thank a New Yorker for them. The golf museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum founder, tall Archer Milton Huntington, son of Railroad Builder Collis Potter Huntington. Archer Huntington insists that his real hobby is Hispanic studies, not founding museums. He has written several travel books on Spain, translated the epic of the Cid Campeador, introduced Artists Zuloaga and Sorolla to the U. S. Less successfully last winter he sponsored one Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós. Argentine illustrator (TIME, March...
...probable the Bonus army brought to Washington the largest aggregation of criminals ever assembled in the city at any one time," declared the Attorney General. He reported: 1) 4,723 bonuseers who got travel loans from the Veterans" Bureau were fingerprinted; 2) of these 1,069 had police records; 3) 829 of them had been convicted; 4) of the convictions 138 were for larceny, 95 for drunkenness, 80 for old military offenses, 69 for vagrancy. Between a quarter and a third of the known members of the B. E. F. could not be identified as War veterans...
Prime source of profit is "mileage," paid at the rate of 400 per mile to & from sessions. The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore. For the same journey Maryland's Goldsborough draws $16 from the public treasury, pockets $11.62. New York's Wagner collects $96 for a trip which costs ordinary citizens only $23.78. Transportation home & back costs Idaho's Borah $239.56 for which the Senate pays him $1,058.80. Ohio's Fess profits $198.42 for each session; Washington's Jones $1,074.22. Representatives enjoy the same generous allowance...