Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Jack Robertson (No.11) quarreled with a white man over wages, shot him. White spectators shot Robertson down in his tracks as he was trying to escape.
After dark Wall Street tiptoed down Pennsylvania Avenue, turned softly in at the White House, stayed for dinner. Afterwards in the quiet security of an upstairs study President Hoover heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Allen Ledyard Lindley, its vice president, talk about the stockmarket...
Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to...
At "Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs...
Time Out has gathered together a few peculiarities of the training table at Dartmouth. Here they are: All the men are required to sip their milk through one straw. "Stan" Yudicky limits himself to a cup of tea and a piece of toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of...