Word: beane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...
...When the bean schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...
...summary: BRADFORD-DURFEE HARVARD 1933 Dewsnap, g. g., Fitch Fallows, l.f.b r.f.b., Vandermark, Heard Freshman, r.f.b. l.f.b.,Amberg Hennessy, r.h.h. r.h.b., Waters Golden, c.h.b c.l.b., Gallaway Terry, l.h.b. l.h.b., Eton Burns, l.o.f. r.o.f., Ossorio, Hasbrouck Eranko l.i.f r.i.f., Denison Singleton, e.f. c.f., Hutton Murphy, r.l.f. l.i.f., Marten, Lindsey, Moskin Bean, r.o.f l.o.f., Schumncher...
Score-Bradford-Durfee 2, Harvard Freshmen 0. Goals--Singleton, Bean. Time--two 35-minute periods...
Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...