Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply has no funds to administer any program beyond next June 30," said Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody, explaining why he must fire half his staff of 10/417 by January i, wind up all PWA public housing, power and similar projects by the end of fiscal...
...desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln had been half the man Lem Schofield...
...driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
...love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie's baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie's young aunt without losing his belief that he was an honorable Virginia...
Last week C. & E. I. got its trustee replacement: tall, handsome Chicago Lawyer Benjamin Wham (rhymes with Tom), writing authority on receiverships and reorganization. His most pressing job (to be shared with C. & E. I.'s crack President C. T. O'Neal): to wind up details of the only Class I reorganization already approved by ICC and Federal courts...