Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other guests there were, including Postmaster General Farley, President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting, Dirigibilist Hugo Eckener and a few of Mr. Boomer's fellow Manhattan hotelkeepers. But the majority were European hotelmen who bore tales of lean years and no profits. There were a few notable exceptions, who reported good business, but the general tenor of the conference was so sad that most meetings were closed to the Press...
...California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...
Labels on the pieces of wood, each neatly sawed off to exact, six-foot lengths, bore addresses to three different dormitories in Princeton, N. J. The attendant remarked, "The boys said that they were worth a good $35 apiece...
...market was ripe for bond flotations but the success of the Kidder, Peabody issue was due in large measure to the name the bonds bore: Scovill Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, Conn., oldest and one of the largest brass companies in the U. S. It was not new financing; the last thing that rock-sound old Connecticut company needs is money...
...some Houses dinners are held at frequent intervals regardless of whether some notable either from within or without the University is to be present. Such dinners artificially inspired help in no way to foster the nebulous House solidarity and are definitely a bore to those not selected to sit with the high and mighty upon the raised platform. Since the Dining Halls are not opened until six-thirty overcrowding usually results and many disgruntled persons are forced to wait for their meal when they would much prefer to eat earlier. Per all House dinners it is sensible and more convenient...