Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elections. During the preceding month it holds three open meetings at which brokers suggest candidates, make stump speeches. In the end, however, the nominating committee from the depth of its own wisdom names whom it pleases. Throughout the 143 years since organized trading began under the old buttonwood tree on Wall Street, official nominations have been, almost without exception, tantamount to election...
...condemning the "political chicanery" of Ohio's relief regime, President Roosevelt was making few enemies among the Buckeye State's regular Democrats. For Martin Davey, who turned his father's experiments in tree surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with...
...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...
...midst of a desultory conference at his Wardha headquarters, Mahatma Gandhi peered at his dollar watch, stood up, hurried out into a blazing sun. Waiting beneath a tree in his orchard were Mr. & Mrs. James Henry Roberts Cromwell (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke). Gandhi shook hands, led them into a bare cell where they all sat on the floor. Voluble Mr. Cromwell began to expound his economic theories, argue for a "reformed capitalism." Gandhi thought that in India that would make a bad situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said...
...Brockton. Mass., a gang of small boys elected Edward Smith, 9, and Robert Dobryzinski, 8, to play the cowboys in a game of "Cowboys and Indians." The Indians captured the cowboys, lashed them to a tree, heaped paper and dry grass around them and lit the execution fire. The cowboys watched the fire nervously while the Indians went dancing, shouting and screaming in a victory dance. Suddenly they heard a higher screaming, stopped. Robert Dobryzinski had wiggled free but Edward Smith's clothing was on fire. The boy died in the hospital...