Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard's chair" with slots at the sides for poles by which chair & occupant could be carried. Total sales for the week...
...keeper of Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail was scandalized, sullenly consented to a religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...
...Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church...
...coalminers' sons sat at a walnut-stained steel desk in a Pittsburgh office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...
Behind their walnut bench in the square inner chamber of their great marble temple, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. looked down upon an attorney arguing. Had a New Jersey school board impaired the obligation of contracts in reducing the salaries of school teachers who had fixed tenures of office? Through the chamber's marble columns, Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley-he who held the cellophane-covered Bible on which Franklin Roosevelt renewed his oath of office (TIME, Feb. 1)-appeared and laid some mimeographed sheets before Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Presently...