Word: co
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blond, fattening, ruddy man of 43 who received her summons had a bitter and significant story for Congressman Martin Dies. That worthy and his co-committeemen could have read the story at any time since 1937, when Fred Erwin Beal told all in his book, Proletarian Journey. But a detour for Prisoner Beal from North Carolina to Washington made more headlines for Mr. Dies, focused national attention on an episode which shamed U. S. Communists long before Joseph Stalin signed with Adolf Hitler...
First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...
...Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning to the storm-vexed, war-vexed Bermoothes...
...audience, among the mink-coated sponsors, there were still some stormy echoes. President Mrs. Royden Keith, who had got Solomon his job, had resigned ("like a bolt from the blue," cooed her co-directors. "Perhaps she felt that the Board was not in sympathy with her policies"). So ex-President Keith had to sit downstairs in an ordinary orchestra seat, while platinum-blonde Acting-President Mrs. James George Shakman (whose Pabst Brewery money helps feed the orchestra's kitty) basked in a box. Beamed she: "We are all working in perfect harmony. . . . The girls are such fine musicians, they...
...clash with the Indians of Dartmouth may seem a long way off, last actually all that separates Dick Harvard's eleven now from this all important tilt is about eight short hours of practice. Eight hours in which to prepare for Wild Bill Hutchinson, Ted Arlen, Bob Krieger and Co...