Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole in them and are worth two mills each in taxes. Colorado, which has had a sales tax for the last...
...haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively...
...Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...
...chain-letter fever burned in Denver and a few other infected areas in the West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last, Jim Farley...
...Alfred, Maine, the aunt of Gregory Brook, 7, told him that if he let his tooth be pulled and put it in a glass of water it would turn into a dime. He did so and the aunt substituted a dime. Gregory thereupon yanked out another tooth with a pair of pliers, put it in the glass, was working on a third when he was stopped...