Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post of Assistant Secretary of War, vacant since Harry Woodring was upped to full Secretary last September, President Roosevelt appointed Louis Arthur Johnson, commander of the American Legion in 1932-33, director of the Veterans division in last year's Democratic campaign. A West Virginia lawyer, captain in the World War, now 46, Legionary Johnson's chief responsibility will be buying all the Army's supplies...
Anyone seeing a well-dressed lady step out of her limousine to feed biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might well recall the old lady and tell the police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim...
Hillyer follows Copey in Vacant Boylston chair...
Four years ago Archbishop Mooney was recalled from Tokyo, apparently for reasons of secular diplomacy. The diocese of Rochester fell vacant and the Pope as signed Archbishop Mooney to fill it. Of larger import, however, was the fact that his fellow bishops soon made him a member of the administrative board, presently board chairman, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That body launches and maintains such "Catholic Action" projects as the Legion of Decency and is the sounding-board of the U. S. hierarchy, lately stipulating to lay Catholics that it and it alone may speak the policies...
...Overpass. Men with queazy stomachs had no place one afternoon last week on the overpass-across the street to street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step...