Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Arthur, Tex., detectives picked up a German, sent him to Memphis, Tenn. Charge: larceny of $1,500 from Clarence Saunders, originator and onetime owner of Piggly Wiggly Stores. No novelty was the loss of a few hundred dollars to Clarence Saunders. In 1923, with "a bag of gold estimated at $4,000,000, he hired a special train, descended on Manhattan to trap the "Wall Street gamblers" who were selling Piggly Wiggly short. No sooner had he skyrocketed his stock from $40 to $150 than the Exchange discovered his corner, barred Piggly Wiggly, ruined Speculator Saunders. With...
...weeks (28 days). All other States elected the maximum 30-day season, but only Nebraska and West Virginia will observe continuous seasons. In 30 States and Alaska, hunters will shoot three days a week for ten weeks, in nine others five days a week for six weeks. Bag and possession limits are the same as last year except for a few imperiled species...
...Capitol the last sprint began. Bird-Lying-Down carried the precious chamois bag. A crowd gathered at the South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could...
...Warren, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...
...morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...