Word: streeter
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
Other bolters-of-the-week: Walter N. Rothschild, director of Abraham & Straus, huge Brooklyn department store; the Oregon Journal, traditionally Democratic Portland paper; Bess Streeter Aldrich, best-selling novelist and Hollywood scenarist; former Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, former Democratic Governor William A. Comstock of Michigan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland...
...after turning in his resignation as president of the top-flight Wall Street investment house of Dillon, Read & Co. His new job: No. 4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already functioning. To implement his Defense Advisory Commission, many...
...throttle wide, telling hearers that the first task of the Administration was to restore private enterprise, that national defense depends mightily on a highly productive, Federally encouraged domestic economy. But Mr. Willkie still had more friends than delegates, and G. O. P. bosses were still leery of a Wall Streeter, no matter how homespun his appearance...
...order in which they finished were: Sheldon, J., 3.09.8; Sise, A. 3.10.1; Garrett, 3.13.0, W. Thurston, 3.20; H. Wolverine, 3.20.2; E. M, Dickson, 3.22. The last six Crimson competitors times didn't count in the totals as Dartmouth had only fourteen men skiing. They were Wilson, R., 3.23.6; Streeter Bass, 3.25.6; Whittemore, R. 3.35.0; Wigglesworth, E. 3.38.0; Weiner, H. 3.43.2; Pickhard, F. 4.02.0, and Emmons...