Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Wheeler had trouble getting at the Stock Exchange's private files until last week when that institution suddenly swamped him with so much material that he had to adjourn for a week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have...
...taken its place as the first one set up in the Colonies. This apparently spent most of its time printing translations of the Bible in the first of which were made in 1661 by John Eliot in the Indians dislects, and sent out where the Indians could digest them in their accustomed surroundings. It was necessary to conform to the Charter of 1650, which dedicated the College "to the education of the English and Indian Youth...
Phooey, Scallions, and Fishcakes on your most lousy choice of a "person-of-the-year." The Digest poll and Mrs. Simpson leave the same taste in my mouth. To your editors (note the votes cast) a big and mighty Bronx cheer...
...When you are frightened," wrote doggy Albert Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...
...small magazine about Reader's Digest size. The Pawnbrokers' Journal got directly to business with the publisher's manifesto which promised that the magazine was to be "a free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high...