Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police, on orders from City Hall, ferreted out all available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public...
This ancient bit of Federal law last week turned up as grit in the gear box of the Government's whole farm relief program. Did it mean that the Treasury could not pay Domestic Allotment bounties to farmers for plowing up cotton and cutting wheat acreage, without first deducting any debts these farmers happened to owe the Government? If so, some $200,000,000 in bounties would never leave the Treasury and farmers would get only a batch of receipted bills on their Federal loans. Or were bounties not "claims" against which farm loans could be collected...
...steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed...
...handicap golfer of Tuckahoe, N. Y.: an 18-hole match against the Prince of Wales; 5 & 4; at Coombe Hill, England. Vastly pleased and perturbed at being the first woman golfer to beat the Prince, Miss Gottlieb gave him one of her iron clubs which he fancied, got a box of balls and an autographed scorecard in return...
...million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...