Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statements at this time by Governor Earle on political issues are certain to attract widespread attention in view of the fact that he has been mentioned frequently as the possible nominee of the Democratic Party in 1940 should President Roosevelt decline to run for a third term. Liberty's poll of newspaper editors considered him as second only to Roosevelt as the most likely man to be elected...
...Governors of nine southeastern States (White of Mississippi, Leche of Louisiana, Chandler of Kentucky, Cone of Florida, Browning of Tennessee, Hoey of N. C., Johnston of S. C., Rivers of Georgia and Graves of Alabama 1 year ago banded together in a loosely formed "conference" to attract new industries to the South- principally by advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina...
Favorite baiting spot was the Times Square Automat, which was handy to union headquarters and a good place to attract a crowd. Once the pickets egged on the police by lying down on the sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare...
...have long held entrenched positions in arty lofts and studios, have expressed sexless conceptions of revolt and starvation to the tootling of oboes and the thumping of drums. In Broadway theatres on Sunday nights these restless, grim-eyed chorines illustrate the serious things of life before coal-black backdrops, attract audiences of starry-eyed worshippers at a $2.50 top (standees...
Just as the Society of Jesus, famed for its urbane, astute fathers, is one of the most useful male orders of the Roman Catholic Church, so the Society of the Sacred Heart, with its dozens of well-run schools and colleges which attract Protestants as well as Catholics, is outstanding among orders on the distaff side. The French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built...