Word: blanks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago to bill His Majesty he could not decide what fee to ask. An Oriental potentate must be charged neither too little nor too much. Finally Dr. Wheeler had an idea, took a sporting ophthalmologist's chance. To the Royal Treasurer he sent a bill in blank, wrote on it modestly "THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG...
...British racetracks as "Telephone Jack." Telephone Jack in 1921 decided that he had not been sufficiently taken care of. He printed and circulated a pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Horatio Bottomley." This was followed by a second number, "What Horatio Bottomley Has Done for His Country." which contained 24 blank pages. Horatio Bottomley sued for libel, lost, and inadvertently gave away the whole story of the War and Victory loan lotteries. He was tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that not only were many prizewinners Bottomley friends...
...away over speculative stories of what U. S. Industry could expect from the U. S. Government. "Principles" were threshed out at White House conferences and details were left to legislative drafting clerks. The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend...
...last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism - went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers. "What do they think...
...single, one of a family of 13 and had been unemployed for a year. His father had not had work in three years. An Army doctor listened to Fiore's heart, thumped his chest, looked down his throat, passed him as physically fit. Fiore Rizzo signed a blank authorizing the Government to pay $25 of his $30 monthly wage to his family, swore a 250-word oath which he did not fully understand and was shipped off to an Army post near New Rochelle as the first recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps...