Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When newshawks asked him what economies he hoped to make he furnished them first with a list of economies that were not to be. No savings could be made in interest on the public debt, none by reducing Federal salaries. None could be made by furloughing employes nor by discharges. None in Relief. Few or none in the regular departments of the Government. He expected that half of fiscal 1938's approximate $8,000,000,000 would be spent. On the other half he hoped that 10% or $400,000,000 would be saved. How? By delaying in hiring...
Never yet has there been a Negro officer of the U. S. Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One was disqualified for imperfect eyesight, one because of age (limits are 16-20), one flunked the entrance exams. Negro Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell who defeated Mr. De Priest in 1934 had better luck. Year ago he appointed James Lee Johnson Jr., who got into the Naval Academy, lasted one semester...
...William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent of the great retrenchment. Reassuring to the staff of his Chicago Herald & Examiner last week was a statement from the Chief that no modification, consolidation...
...protected almost everywhere in the U. S., although they occasionally eat small birds. New York State game officials admitted last week that the patrolman and the Rockefeller warden had technically violated the law by shooting the owls, but because of the circumstances seemed disinclined to take any action. None of the persons attacked could sue anyone for their hurts or their scares, since neither landowners nor governments are liable for attacks by wild animals...
Many a fantastic tale was told of the late William J. Fallen, debonair, daring, egotistical criminal defender for many of Manhattan's biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...