Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Complaining that recently built cane sugar refineries in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had cut down his volume of business, Chairman Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co. reported 1934 earnings of $4,877,000, slightly less than in 1933. Just after the close of its fiscal year American Sugar Refining had called in $1,515,000 in bonds due in 1937, completing in 13 years the redemption of $30,000,000 in bonds issued...
...customary striped trousers, cutaway and broad-brimmed black felt hat, Chesley W. Jurney, the Senate's portly Sergeant-at-Arms, strolled one day last week up to the Senate Press Gallery. Jauntily twirling his cane, he boomed to the assembled newshawks: "Here's a statement from Bill MacCracken, boys. I just put him in jail...
These inmates became friends, as the soldier, Willard, my grandfather, made necessary visits to the prison for his supplies. They exchanged corals for walking sticks, violin bows for turtle shells. Your tintype of Dr. Mudd shows him whittling another cane of hard wood, one of which is in my collection. My grandfather's painting of his lighthouse home, and the little sailboat Jenney of Loggerhead is on my wall before...
More select than Japan's peerage is her caneage-those who are privileged to carry a cane in the presence of Divine Emperor Hirohito. Last week Tokyo had titillating intimations from the Imperial Household Ministry that Octogenarians Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and Baron Tatsuo Yamamoto will this month be raised to the caneage...
Despite the august quality thus conferred upon these elders, Osaka's chatty Mainichi could not resist chattering that neither Mr. Takahashi, an old fox, now Finance Minister for the seventh time, nor Baron Yamamoto, an astute banker and Mitsubishi executive, has any real need of a cane. Chirped Mainichi: "Baron Yamamoto weighs 155 Ib. and has rosy cheeks. His hobbies are net fishing and archery, and he attributes his health to these...