Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afterwards the Barnetts moved to Los Angeles, acquired a fine house, and Crazy Jack kept a stableful of Indian ponies. They lived comfortably on the $2,500 a month alloted him by the Government. Crazy Jack was contented. His chief pleasure was standing on the curb before the house, pretending to be a traffic cop and holding up his hand at automobiles. The only disruption of his last days occurred in March when the Government finally got a court to annul his marriage. That meant little to him, however, for the Lowe woman stayed on as his housekeeper...
...outdone by this apparent spirit of compromise, the New York Stock Exchange last week launched a severe investigation into 15 stocks which have lately skyrocketed amid showers of tips. The Curb Exchange followed with a probe of certain stocks on its list...
Some of his old classmates were also looking forward last week to their reunion with "Putzy" with the greatest anticipation. There was Radio Newsman Hans von Kaltenborn, whose 17-year-old son was standing on a Berlin curb when a Nazi storm trooper slapped him for not saluting the Nazi flag carried by a passing detachment (TIME, Sept. 18). There were also several well-known U. S. Jewish classmates, including Lee Simonson, famed scenic artist, and Edwin Isaak Marks, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Other "Putzy" classmates: Boston Post Publisher Richard Grozier; Francis B. Biddle...
Anyone who at this time could step in and curb the prevailing war psychology which is becoming increasingly popular should immediately be considered a "Man-of-the-Year" candidate. The article "Munitions Men," TIME. March 5, was a masterful article, chock-full of facts, an article which should entitle the author to "Man-of-the-Year" honors if widely enough circulated and read to have effect...
...Peanut Shell. Son of a Texas peanut planter, he started to toast peanuts in a small shack in Columbus about 1925. By 1930 Tom Huston's Pea nut Co. had a big factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia's excess peach crop, which he planned to quick-freeze and market in the off season. As Depression deepened, how ever...