Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey Long never at any time ordered the deduction of so much as a thin dime from the pay envelope of an officeholder compelled to do Long's bidding or lose his job, to be turned over to the New Orleans States.
The great exchanges of the U. S. last week lacked natural stimulants. On the Chicago Board of Trade the energy building grains, limited not only to 4? and 5? daily fluctuations, but also forbidden (by a rule good until Aug. 15) to fall below their July 31 closing levels, floundered...
Last week Chincoteague fishermen had rounded up about 200 ponies. Some 5,000 spectators cheered and munched hot dogs as cowboys herded the ponies into a pen. Then, while the crowd closed in to pick favorites, came the branding. Thrifty natives have put their brands on most of the ponies...
¶ Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, Theodore A. Lightner, Michael T. Gottlieb: the "international bridge championship" for a trophy put up by Charles M. Schwab; against a British team of four, whose bidding grew timid after they had piled up an early lead, 104,080 points to 93,180 after 300...
Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus...