Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchange, which advertises "a bank statement that any man or woman can understand." Chase, whose statement at that time no man but Bankster Wiggin could understand, bought & bought until it owned a 20% interest. But Mr. Wiggin was kept busy by other jobs, and the 150,000 shares gathered dust in the Chase vaults. Last week Chase's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, still raking Mr. Wiggin's cabbage patch, dug out the 150,000 shares of Corn Exchange stock, sold them to Lehman Brothers, bankers. No price was revealed. Two days later Lehman offered 78,000 shares...
...CRUCIFIXION OF LIBERTY-Alexander Kerensky-Day ($2.75). The onetime head of the Russian Government gives his side of the case, not without dust and heat, adding one more stone to the defensive-memoir pile...
...south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco...
...payrolls. This time it's different. . . . Any crook could finance a hole in the ground in five minutes in Manila, and he wouldn't even be asked where the hole was." Proof of Old Tom's hole was in his bottle-glittering full of gold dust. Last week when the two biggest gold mines in the Philippines announced their dividends for 1933, it was plain that Old Tom's good luck was not unique. Benguet Consolidated Mining, formed in 1903 when the industry had hardly begun, was a richly paying enterprise even before it acquired control...
University--"Moulin Rouge". Constance Bennett seducing her own husband is neither very attractive nor very amusing. "Massacre." And another red-skin bit the dust...