Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turtles & Towboats. The Department of Commerce Building (sometimes called "Hoover's Folly" after the ex-Secretary who laid its cornerstone four months before the 1929 crash) is a wondrously massive seven-story limestone, granite and marble pile with 3,311 rooms and 5,200 windows, covering three full city...
In Washington, portly Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it...
Sawyer for President. If the reaction to such fine words was no more than a brisk hand clapping, it was because U.S. businessmen, more accustomed to red lights, sidings and switchpoint derails were reserving final judgment. There were some skeptics. One listener, who thought of the situation in terms other...
The Secretary's Mirror. The best Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover had been looking in a shaving mirror, generally with satisfaction, for close to half a century. At 62 he was a millionaire, but he still had the reputation of being a frugal man; he considered lavish official...
His father was a Maine Republican who moved to the village of Madisonville, Ohio (now a part of Cincinnati), where father Sawyer was a school principal. With a record of good marks in high school, Charles, in 1905, went to Oberlin College. There, helping to pay his own expenses, he...