Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose Tom was happy? Not a bit of it. Something was lacking. What that something was, Tom was not quite smart enough to figure out. But he felt the need of a change, and decided to get away from it all, moisten the lips and start afresh...
...promptly started afresh with Tom Huston System, merchandisers of "Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...
...chief whiskeys in General Foods' eye, and also Gordon's Gin. The last was a cause for much debate and speculation. The importing company that had Gordon's in the old days had come sufficiently to life to give DCL legal pause in assigning this agency afresh. Observers waited to see whether the Gordon prize would fall to the General Foods crowd, led by its hustling Chairman Edward F. ("Ed") Hutton and Thomas L. Chadbourne, or to National Distillers for whom, for the sake of his insurance business, James Roosevelt was doing some discreet wangling, including...
...Rufus Dawes paid off $4,000,000 of bonds. Last week he paid another million, felt he had done pretty well to pay stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair and bring the less profitable southern concessions farther north; new contracts with concessionaires so that the Fair can throw out nude shows without fear...
...under 45 and if he stays out of jail-the chances are that he will make a comeback. Rogers Clark Caldwell, whose crash three years ago reverberated from Georgia to Arkansas, was sentenced to jail but high Tennessee courts reversed the conviction. The ambitious, youngish banker-promoter promptly started afresh at his old Nashville stand with $1,000 capital and the old Caldwell slogan, "We bank on the South" (TIME, Sept...