Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 86, Greek munitioneer and "Mystery Man of Europe," knighted by King George V, supersalesman for Vickers Ltd.; at Monte Carlo last week; of heart failure. Minimum estimate of the fortune left to Sir Basil's stepdaughters, the Royal Bourbon Princesses Angela & Maria: $50,000,000. Their mother waited 40 years for their insane father Prince Francisco of Bourbon-Sicily to die before she married her lover Sir Basil in 1924 only to die 17 months later. Up in London popped a 67-year-old shoemaker, Hyram Barnett Zaharoff to contest the will and claim...
...will the State election be neglected. If Haigis, the Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading, a circle of green lights will be thrown on top of Sever Hall, and relayed from there over to Widener by easy stages. A lead of Hurley, Bourbon aspirant, will be indicated by emptying a case of old champagne into the crowd below...
...until 1934 the employer groups dominated the hiring halls, taking on men and firing them with the recklessness of a Bourbon era. But the two year agreements then adopted gave the unions a half share in controlling the halls, as well as dealing with the need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins...
...Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
...issue is not one of reaction against revolution. Landon is as little Bourbon as Roosevelt is Marxist. The choice is rather between an orderly correction of current abuses in the capitalist system, carried out after mature study and in line with constitutional procedure, and a hit-and-run revision of all existing institutions, carried out by the impulses of one man coupled with the endless grasping of pressure groups of every kind...