Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland's Mount Tabor Park, with...
...Declaration by the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee that two Federal job-holders-Collector of Internal Revenue H. Hampton Magruder at Baltimore, Postmistress Maude Toulson at Salisbury-had violated Federal laws in politicking for Candidate Lewis...
...Argonne at 19, now gets about nimbly on an artificial one. President of Tammany's Anawanda Club, Jim Fay ran against John O'Connor for Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held a $4,600 job as Chief Field Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His platform this year: 100% for Roosevelt. His most earnest hope: that Franklin Roosevelt or James Aloysius Farley will have time for at least one speech in the Gashouse before election...
Once a man contracts the habit of collecting phonograph records, it usually sticks like dandruff. Last year RCA Victor's canny Advertising Manager Thomas F. Joyce decided that: 1) the phonograph industry needed more incurable record collectors, 2) many potential incurables were being kept from record-collecting by the high price of good phonographs. On the market, but little appreciated by the public at the time, was a gadget known as a Record Player, which could convert any radio into a practical, high-fidelity phonograph. If, argued Advertising Manager Joyce, more Record Players could be sold, everybody who owned...
...Manhattan. Purgee O'Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named their own primary candidate: Allen Welsh Dulles, 45, lawyer, onetime (1916-26) State Department underling...