Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Francisco newsmen have come to expect castigation from Editor Morphy for their antics. This time, however, they knew, and knew he must know, that the paper which had set the pace on the Mooney-Billings case was the San Francisco News. The News is a Scripps-Howard paper and Publisher Roy Howard went to San Francisco personally to supervise the building up of the Mooney-Billings story into a Sacco-Vanzetti Case of the West?a feature for the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain. Observers outside of California also knew that leading papers not in the Scripps-Howard chain...
...pessimist and expect a perfectly natural improvement in business before the end of the year, but I feel like the alderman, who, confusing gondolas with rabbits, thought two gondolas were sufficient for the pond in the park...
...committee cast about for a title for Robert Henry Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a Kentuckian of whom the Hooverites expect much. The title "executive assistant to the national chairman" was proposed. Senator Fess complained it was not sufficiently "illuminating and dignified" for Mr. Lucas. Finally chosen was the phrase: "Executive Director of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee." The executive committee failed to fix Executive Director Lucas' salary at $25,000 as prearranged, left the matter to Chairman Fess and National Treasurer Joseph Nutt (also of Ohio...
Advantages of aerocrete as a structural floor lie in its high heat-insulating value, its sound-deadening properties, its light weight. According to the use for which it is needed, it can be made from 20% to 75% of weight of ordinary concrete. Authorities expect it to reduce by almost one-fourth the weight of steel necessary to support a building. Aerocrete floors have been put in a new addition to Bethlehem Steel Corp. at Bethlehem, Pa. and in the Golden Hill Building, Manhattan...
Last month he said if ever he married he would draw up this contract: "I hereby promise to do my damndest. You are hereby notified that I expect you to be polite...