Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wee." But even Joe Kennedy with his Olympian police powers cannot go forth within his precinct and command companies to borrow money that they do not need. All he can do, as he has done, is to make it easy for the honest. He has stumped the land proclaiming his credo: "No honest business need fear the SEC." He has been not only a good policeman, but also a polite one, insisting that all SEC subordinates be courteous and cooperative. Doing business is infinitely more difficult than before the New Deal but bankers now know that it can be done...
...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
...could have made entrance, as the Stillman gate was closed. It was suggested by some amateur Dick Tracy that it must have been born on the premises, perhaps the illegitimate offspring of some dissipated Rolls-Royce. But the birth certificate, taken out in Pennsylvania and identifying the wee one as No. UV-134, seems to indicate that the baby must have been smuggled in through some subterfuge...
Night after night vigorous, broad-shouldered President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur sat up until the wee hours, wrangling with his Cabinet last week until Secretary of Justice Mario Montero could stand it no longer. "I am tendering my resignation," he told reporters wearily in the grey dawn. "I simply cannot sit up through all night Cabinet sessions, attend to the business of the Ministry of Justice and keep my health...
...Woodward, is chairman of The Jockey Club. At the track three days later Governor and Mrs. Lehman watched Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Rocky Run set a new two-mile track record to win the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap. First long-shot winner at Saratoga was a horse named Wee Tune at 50-to-1, on which bookmakers dropped some $50,000. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had 30 horses in his Saratoga string, got up at 4 a.m., went out to the track with "Bet Mosie," his personal betting commissioner, to clock workouts. Before the week was over...