Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked down on the Ukranian State shop. It promptly disgorged 4,200 rubles and this "refund" NKVD agents beamingly carried to Capitalist Davies in his private...
...Cloud to Coronation. To the 1932 campaign fund of Franklin Roosevelt $25,000 was chipped in by Judge Robert Worth Bingham, and he has got an amazing money's worth in return as Ambassador to the Court of St. James. The Jubilee of George & Mary, the great King-Emperor's demise, the numerous pageants of King Edward's accession, the shocker of abdication, and yet another colorful, majestic burst of accession pageantry for George VI have all thrilled the Bingham family...
Most notorious ship in the world last Jan. 6 was a blunt-nosed little Spanish freighter named Mar Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis...
...charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which gave New York its 1936 grand prize as the "city which . . . came nearest to doing for safety the maximum that can be done practically." Currently Deputy Commissioner Fowler is trying to get even closer to the maximum with a city...
...member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Joseph Calleia gets his oar in, but he is a friendly back-stabber this time. The solution to the mystery comes with the exposure in a most unconvincing manner of the least suspected person as the murderer. The program is worth taking in, however, because the feature picture is well acted and well photographed...