Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a little girl gave chase to the royal limousine, panting after it with a fistful of flowers. Prince George told the chauffeur to pull up and the child with a breathless curtsy plumped her posies into Princess Marina's lap. At Prince George's apartments in St. James's Palace, the Princess and her parents spent an hour, then left with him for Balmoral Castle. As yet Marina had no engagement ring, since George had found nothing suitable in the Balkans where he wooed her (TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir...
Predecessor. When Mr. Morgenthau sits at his desk, he can raise his eyes to the right and look up into the florid features of Salmon P. Chase. He may take some com fort from doing so, for he and Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury have much in common. Chase, too, was not a financier by training. His chief interest in life was abolition and he had the difficult job of financing the war to end slavery. The Dictionary of American Biography says of Mr. Chase...
...rency; to make forecasts and prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...
...Washington last week. General Johnson was away on vacation while NRA's remaking was under consideration. Donald Richberg, busy with multitudinous conferences on future policy, slipped out early to pick up his wife and their 8-year-old daughter Eloise at their temporary home in Chevy Chase and go house-hunting for another, more permanent residence in Washington's environs...
...Sept. 10. ... He says that those in his colony on Sept. 10 will be saved, that the rest can go to Hell, Editor's Note-The doomed will include all delinquent Item subscribers. Play safe and pay up at once, as we don't want to chase all over Hell after these bills...