Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat, which has been vacant since her husband died last year, moved the relict of Edward Laurence Doheny. As all oil men know, dark-haired, 6-year-old Mrs. Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny can do business with the best of them. Her company was her husband's personal basket, founded long before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today it is a hodgepodge of the remaining Doheny oil lands in Bakersfield, Long Beach, Ventura, Kettleman Hills, a big interest in Tide Water Associated Oil, a number of California corner lots, an eleven-story building...
...Smith presented a basket of flowers to Mrs. Roosevelt and the crowd began to shout, "Speech! Speech!" Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "I never make speeches...
...minutes later, in a talk from Neighbor Smith's front porch, President Roosevelt declared: "When Mrs. Moses Smith here presented my wife with that beautiful basket of flowers, I heard my wife say in response to a request, 'Oh. I never make speeches.' I never knew that before." The crowd guffawed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked flustered. Continued the President, with a grin and lift of his eyebrows: "Well, live and learn, live and learn...
...Clarence Saunders astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...