Word: ward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF G. K. CHESTERTON -Sheed & Ward...
Typical was the largest Electoral College, which assembled in Albany, N. Y. Among the 47 electors who drew their $15 day's pay, their 10? a mile travel allowance and their free souvenir fountain pens (for signing oaths and official certifications) were, besides numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery...
...Providence, Rhode Island's Electoral College did not know until the last minute whether it could meet. Reason: in the town of Warwick four voting machines in one ward had been locked up because of a local contest. Opened at the last minute they showed that false totals had been reported, 200 votes on each machine. Democratic Mayor John A. O'Brien, instead of being re-elected by 179 votes, lost by 621 votes to Republican Albert P. Ruerat. After a three-hour delay: for Roosevelt & Garner, 4 electoral votes...
...family of Isaac Van Anden until it was acquired in 1929 by Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. In its great days from 1892 till 1930, the Eagle's eyrie was a Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough's first families still reside. Conservative organ of the top-drawer element in a conservative city not unlike Boston or Baltimore, the Eagle rightly regarded itself as one of the country...
Like many another U. S. business, Spiegel, May, Stern woke up in 1932 with a bad hangover. From 1929 to 1932 it lost $2,575,000. Unlike its big neighbor, Montgomery Ward, it was shackled to no failing chain stores, but it was as badly off as Ward's in its ineffective merchandising methods. Spiegel's needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth...