Word: tall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for three years as G With the W. They were conscious of participating in a national event, of seeing a picture it had taken three yea~s to make from a novel it had taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius...
...appointed successor: tall, careful Clarence Griffith Stoll, who at 56 has been vice president in charge of Western Electric's operations for eleven years...
...tall, big-jawed, witty bachelor, Philippe Heriat considers himself to have been one of the three worst students in his school. The other two: French...