Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding economist." Says that "private bankers control credit on the basis of what's in it for me. Let us give back to the Federal government where the Constitution placed it, the control of currency and credit." Mr. Goodwin places all his eggs in the Townsend Plan basket. This plan provides for a monthly pension of $200 to all men over SIXTY with the proviso that the recipients must spend it all within the month. The money is to be raised through a sales tax, but when the committee questioned him on the details of the plan he replied that...
...from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse, and at last brings tragedy. Finally, Mr. Wiggs...
...when the starting run was fired he lit out. Luckily, the pair of basket ball bloomers was identical with the proper flag flown later by the committee beat. So he was dead right on the first ten miles. But on the second he went decidedly haywire, heading out to sea at right angles to the true course. None of the experts could figure what he was going. Some suggested he was going fishing; others said he was seeking a quiet place for a picnic lunch, with olives and devilled eggs and everything. Still others said he was simply a poor...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
Pretty Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, divorced wife of Elliott Roosevelt, arrived in New York on the Europa last week. Reporters promptly showed her a copy of the picture, pointed out her image lying in the trash basket. She looked at it, blushed, then covered her face with her hands...