Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Interior. Harold L. Ickes (pronounced "Ick-us"), 58, of Chicago, is a Midwest maverick appointed as a reward to progressive Republican bolters. He was recommended to the President-elect by Republican Senators Johnson of California and Cutting of New Mexico after they had both rejected Cabinet bids. The Ickes appointment started loud grumbles among Illinois' Democratic leaders who were completely ignored in the selection...
...enthusiasm will eventually make the Soviet output even greater than that of America. This doctrine is developed chiefly by means of an elaborate running graph towards the close of the picture which has all the possibilities of an exciting horse race. Ultimately the white line wins and the Soviets reward the victorious brigade. You see, comrade, all this is in extenuation of the failure of the Russian five-year plan...
...rise of General Motors and Chrysler in the great motor boom of the 1920's. No dividends were paid on the common stock from 1920 to 1928. In 1929 Motorman Willys rested from his labors, accepted President Hoover's offer of an Ambassadorship as a reward for fat contributions to the G. O. P. He sold his control of Willys-Overland to a Chicago and Toledo group headed by Marshall Field III and Charles Foster Glore. They put some of the stock into their investment trust, Chicago Corp., one of the largest holders with 300,300 shares...
...outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just as she had built her palaces, she gave $100,600 for the National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington's B Street. The passage of the 19th Amendment was her reward. In 1931, aged 78, she also had her finger in the passage of the Cable Act which enables U. S. women to retain their citizenship when married to foreign nationals...
...oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship of the world...