Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means argues a lack of sincerity in her efforts on behalf of labor legislation. On the other hand, neither her sincerity nor her afternoon of triumph last week indicates that Aunt Mary, who as chairman of the House District Committee was a great success as "the first woman Mayor of Washington," has been an equally outstanding success as Labor chairman. Undoubtedly, her efforts and those of her steering committee, headed by Massachusetts' Arthur Healey, last week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized...
...wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received no relief money for herself...
...James Eugene Bassett of Annapolis, Md., just out of the U. S. Naval Academy, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet at Manila. He drove across the U. S. to Seattle. There he put an advertisement in the newspapers to sell his car. An unsmiling 63-year-old woman named Mary Eleanor Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered...
Last week it was evident that Dictator Metaxas' supply of "Reds" had not given out. On one day, it was announced, 76 "Communist" agitators-75 men, one woman-were arrested and that further arrests were to follow. Among those detained were some members of the former, now defunct, Greek Parliament in which there were only 15 Communists. Before courts-martial the "Reds" were sentenced to terms of from four to six years. They will probably join some 2,000 other "comrades" being held on barren islands in the Aegean Sea by Dictator Metaxas...
That cruise started in March 1937 when the Bakers christened their American-designed, Chinese-built schooner So Fong (which they were told meant "everything beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...