Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...courtship of the third President of the U. S. to woo and win in the White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love...
...liked to put on a record in the Oval Room after dinner and practice a jig step, envied minstrel dancers because they "took on no more at their hearts than they could kick off at their heels." Another diversion of the 28th President of the U. S.: after long White House receptions he "loved to get upstairs and twist his face about. . . . He could make his ears move and elongate his face or broaden it in a perfectly ludicrous...
Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps confronted the possibility that it also might have to train and commission Negro pilots. This prospect (awful to the all-white corps) loomed after the Senate passed the $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill (TIME, March 13). Besides upping the authorized strength of the Air Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert...
...ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters, always in need of women for the white-slave trade which supplies Africa and South American countries with prostitutes, were reported circulating in the camps looking for new personnel...