Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes rubber in Sumatra, tires in Detroit, footwear in Naugatuck. machine belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis Breese Davis Jr. announced earnings for the year...
Most newsreaders remember Starr Faithfull, if they bother to remember her at all, as a pretty young girl whose bruised body, with veronal in the liver, was washed ashore at Long Beach, N. Y. one day in June four years ago (TIME, June 29, 1931). Partly because of her incredible name, partly because of her spectacular sex life, the Press quickly picked up all that was left of Starr Faithfull and gave it to the nation as a hot weather sensation. With the mystery of the girl's death still unsolved, the story eventually collapsed. But newspaper publishers...
...mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom, he sets out upon the mighty, storm-tossed waters...
...ordered justices of the peace in that State, who hold their jobs at his pleasure, to cease & desist from performing marriage ceremonies, even for Protestants. The fact that certain J. P.'s are legally empowered to mumble a few words over any couple that pays $10 did not bother the pious Governor. He declared: "This sacred ceremony should be performed only by clergymen. If any marriages are performed by justices who come before me for renewal of their commissions, their applications will be turned down...
...money. To him merchandising is merely a necessary nuisance. If a person chooses to buy a Chevrolet or a Plymouth, the loss, Mr. Ford feels, is the buyer's, not his. Even the staggering deficits rolled up in the Depression-$132,000,000-do not bother him. It is, to Henry Ford, merely money "spent...