Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delaware, the House of Representatives voted 22-to-12 to endorse Governor C. (for Clayton) Douglass Buck for the Presidential nomination. An in-law of the du Ponts who rule the State, quiet, handsome Governor Buck reciprocated by recommending that Legislators raise their daily pay from $10 to $20. No one seriously expected tiny Delaware to win a Presidential nomination; the legislature's move was chiefly a precautionary one to tie up to a "favorite...
Bought and paid for by the Duke Endowment, a loft. bronze statue stood last week in the Manhattan studio of Sculptor Charles Keck. It shows the late, great Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke in frock coat, baggy trousers, clodhoppers. In his right hand is a cane; in his left, a cigar...
Proudest, craftiest and most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces...
Oldtime Nemo-lovers, however, will miss the gentle conception of Slumberland. Instead of giving Nemo's adventures the honest simplicity of a child's dreams, Winsor Jr. has compromised with the "Buck Rogers" school of Jules Verne adventure. Thus the new series has Nemo accidentally shot sky-high from a circus cannon, takes him toward "another planet" where propeller-driven men called "gyro-scouts" broadcast news of his approach from their radio helmets. Flip & Impie fly out to meet him in an airplane...
...interests other than in the social atmosphere and their appetites, it might be added that Dunster has an unexcelled library in English History and Economics and an adequate supply of books in other fields. In History an excellent tutorial staff is headed by Professor Haring, the Master, with Mr. Buck and Professor Brinton; in Economics Professor Harris, the Senior Tutor, with Professor Mason, Professor Schumpeter and Mr. Sweezy; and in English by the affable Dr. Noyes, Dr. Souers, and Mr. White. Professor Friedrich, who keeps discreetly silent about Herr Hitler, will talk interestingly and instructively about any other aspect...