Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal enables Goodrich to have its cake and eat it, too. Voting control goes to the buying executives through ownership of 3,300 of the 6,000 shares of common outstanding. The rest of the common goes to Goodrich along with 120,000 shares of preferred stock. Since this preferred stock is convertible share for share into common after Jan. 1, 1937, Goodrich can eventually regain control. If no dividends are paid, the preferred receives voting rights on the same date, control reverting to Goodrich. Though Hood officials say the amount is a secret, something was paid Goodrich...
...Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan; 2) a cake with 58 candles baked at the White House; 3) a croaker; 4) a Boy Scout scroll; 5) a song by youngsters from Pittsburgh ("Happy Birthday, dear President, happy birthday to you!"); 6) a greeting card with some 40,000 signatures...
...their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer, ordered Captain John H. Turner to return to Washington...
...tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them so the cake will not be wasted. All kitchen appliances, freezing devices, mechanical cleaners etc. etc. he tries to keep in operation eight hours a day, feels cheated...
...coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles...