Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sound industries do not voluntarily seek government regulation. When it is forced upon them, as upon electric power, they buck and fight vigorously. Oil. lumber, shipping and agriculture, on the other hand, have begged and received government aid because they were economically sick. In the Interstate Commerce Commission the railroads have a protection against ruinous competition which they would not give up for anything. When it was making good money, the bituminous coal industry bridled angrily at the mere suggestion of Federal regulation...
...Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed at 84-year-old Superior Judge George H. Buck: "I want protection from this man. Why should he come here and question me like this?" Judge Buck smiled and said, "Take this old lady home...
...with Gilbert, had killed her in a jealous rage; that she had been murdered by squaws who were angered at having her come among them asking personal questions. But then was found an unmailed letter from the girl to her kin in the East. She told of one Indian buck who, as white people had warned her might happen, had taken advantage of her friendly interest, tried to molest her. She wrote that she feared this Indian. Authorities started looking for him. He was, they said, a nomadic Apache from the hills...
True, it was an Indian woman who at great peril to herself guided the Lewis & Clark Expedition, giving us the States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. One of Grant's most trusted generals in the Civil War was an Indian "buck.'' Indians saved the Plymouth and Virginia Colo nies from starvation. Indians developed the useful plants-corn, tobacco, potatoes, rubber, chocolate, the best commercial varieties of beans and cotton, to mention only a few-that comprise five-eighths of the agricultural wealth of the world today...
...Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., fun-loving socialite-sportsman, more distinguished for social than commercial maneuvers. Divorced last March by Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, who was left more than $50,000,000 by her father, the late Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, Mr. Biddle three months later married Mrs. Margaret A. Schulze, daughter of the late Mining- Tycoon William Boyce Thompson whose estate was valued at $85,000,000. Most prominent of Mr. Biddle's business ventures has been the development of Manhattan's Central Park Casino...