Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police force, whose superintendent, Edward Hubbs, was indicted for perjury a year ago (indictment quashed), demoted last week, was undermanned. Only 248 policemen were patrolling the city's 129 square miles at any one time...
...seven years, the one New Dealer who never got his lumps from the opposition was good grey Cordell Hull, the homely and ascetic Secretary of State who remained placidly in his old rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue, quietly preaching the apparently unassailable doctrine that good trade follows good will. Last week Mr. Hull's turn came...
Leaders McNary and Martin are old hands at bomb-plotting (TIME, July 31). But last week they were engaged in their biggest project. For the dynamiting of Cordell Hull's trade agreements might also blow up the Presidential prospects of Mr. Hull-and he is the only man in sight on whom Democrats of all shades can compromise as a candidate this year...
...sure Mr. Hull will be rolled over a barrel of imported Argentine beef. It was the farm bloc who wrote the Emergency Tariff of 1921, the Fordney-McCumber tariff boost of 1922, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Republicans may again become "friends of the farmer." Last week Mr. Hull said he welcomed an investigation, if it were not made by chums of the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith. Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell. What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said...