Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, Dr. J. M. ("Jingle Money") Smith had been indicted 36 times and was under $204,500 bail in the New Orleans jail. Louisiana was not content just to "throw the book" at dour Doctor Smith. Out went State officials, day after day, high and low. Indicted were 14 men ranging from a Standard Oil of Louisiana official to the president of the Louisiana Medical Society to the business manager of Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge kicked out its police chief just to keep in the swing...
Senator Murray of Montana, Representatives Bradley of Pennsylvania and Sabath of Illinois, servants equally of organized labor and of the New Deal, dutifully drafted amendments to Colonel Harrington's law as dictated by Labor. Cutest question of the week was whether the President would throw his weight for or against what the New York Times termed "the aristocrats of Relief...
Earl Long also telegraphed WPAdministrator F. C. ("Pink") Harrington in Washington asking for "data that you have obtained in a private way that would help us throw light on the befuddled condition at L. S. U.; also anything that you have found that has any bearing on irregularities involving any official or employe of the State of Louisiana." Two L. S. U. supervisors and its construction superintendent resigned. The latter, George Caldwell, his assistant, and a WPA foreman were promptly arrested, charged with diverting WPA labor and materials to private uses...
...best. He can pour it out so dynamically that his eyeballs pop. His radio voice is not pale, even beside Franklin Roosevelt's. Consciousness of his mastery over men gives him a dignity which might be ludicrous had he not also a dazzling smile and the ability to throw his head back, laugh uproariously, especially at embarrassing questions. When asked last week if he would discuss 1940 when he sees Franklin Roosevelt, he roared: "Why not? I always have...
...Courant is still published within a stone's throw of Founder Green's hand press. It is now ruled in its obituary policy and otherwise by sober, stamp-collecting Publisher Henry H. Conland, who joined the paper as an office boy 39 years ago, and Editor Maurice S. Sherman, a good-natured fisherman whose editorial style is compared with that of the Courant's most famed leader writer, Mark Twain's crony, Charles Dudley Warner. Together they have helped restore respectability to the "Old Lady of State Street," who lost it briefly after the World...