Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm of bees they cluster about Madam, with her silver-headed cane and common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns to the grandmother for money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother lets him wait. When her simple-minded hired man Curly gets drunk...
...legally marry a white woman in any Southern State. But Wisconsin does not mind, nor California. Last week at Carmel, Calif., "Provincetown of the Pacific Coast," there was an intellectual charivari. A parade of Carmel artists and authors marched to the cottage of Jean Toomer, 36, Negro philosopher (Cane), psychologist and lecturer, and Novelist Margery Bodine Latimer (This Is My Body), 33. It had just been revealed that they were married four months ago at Portage, Wis. Bridegroom Toomer, who has a small mustache and few Negroid characteristics, told the story of their romance...
Under these circumstances, Sugar Institute, Inc., got tacit government approval to come into being. It was formed "to establish the cane sugar refining industry upon a basis of sound business practices, to eliminate trade abuses, to promote the consumption of sugar by advertising." Assistant Attorney General William Joseph Donovan said then in a letter to the sugar lawyers that the Government believed the Institute was a bona fide trade association but the Department of Justice would continue to watch it and call upon it from time to time for further information. This the Government did regularly, and apparently...
While the Spreckels interests are many, sugar has been the core. Great is American Sugar Refining Co. whose table sugars (Domino and Franklin) are 25% of the total U. S. cane output. Also great was Spreckels Sugar Corp. whose tablets (Caneheart) were 6%. Depression has hit both companies. Last fortnight American Sugar, whose chairman Earl D. Babst has no faith in stabilization projects, bowed to the gale and cut its dividend from $5 to $4. And last week the same gale toppled Spreckels Sugar into a receivership...
Miss Almeda Anderson of the University of Minnesota made a study of butterfly legs and reported her findings to the American Society of Zoologists. She found that butterflies' legs are unresponsive to water and milk, but twitch noticeably when touched with cane sugar. They reacted to a solution 1/1600 as strong as the weakest sugar solution a human being can taste. Therefore Miss Anderson concluded: 1) butterflies like sugar, 2) butterflies taste with their legs, have their sweet tooth there...