Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, 51, Oklahoma's romping onetime (1935-36) "Cowboy Congressman"; of heart disease; in Coalgate, Okla. Celebrated for his ten-gallon hat, shoestring tie and wing collar, "Ol' Gass" declared that every judge should have at least five years experience at poker before taking office, boosted the Association for the Prevention of Taking Off Hats in Elevators...
Primarily a grocery store like all supermarkets. Trading Post makes only one appeal: price. It undersells even chain stores 8% to 10%. Located in the centre of a 500,000 laboring and white-collar population, it often attracts a Saturday crowd of 10,000 avid bargain-hunters. Six neighboring lots provide free parking for 1,000 cars. In the last two and a half years two people have been killed, 19 injured in the traffic snarls that the supermarket generates...
...When washed and sifted, the opinions claim that New York financial interests control labor as well as the managers of industry, that union workers must pay for their jobs, that independent competition is essential to business improvements and higher wages, and that the Wagner Act is an iron collar upon the neck of labor...
Among post-NRA expedients of the Administration which make Hugh Samuel Johnson hot under the collar is the undistributed profits tax. Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...