Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, last week the harassed Prime Minister experienced two more blasts against his foreign policy. Newspapers in the north of England and Scotland, somewhat removed from the personal influence of Government members, scored Mr. Chamberlain for allowing President Roosevelt to be the democratic leader who has thus far delivered the strongest attack on the dictator states...
Many a boat buyer,* if his boat is delivered in time, will cruise to Florida this winter over the Government-promoted inland waterway from New York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies...
...Rats!" snapped Mr. Montgomery to his studio ratters, and ear-cocked terriers dashed excitedly to the chase in countless homes of England. "Lie down," "Find it," "Jump over the poker," went more commands. Rattling food pans and garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak...
...Wall Street brokerage house of Jacquelin & De Coppet, greatly worried over what might happen to stock prices in the event of Franklin Roosevelt's death, took out in England a ?60,000 insurance policy on his life. It then deducted the premium, $23,102, from its 1933 income tax return as a business expense. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed it. So, last week, did the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, declaring the case "wholly unique in the business history of this country...
...conditions are generally poor throughout New England this week end, with the Dartmouth, Conway and Whitefield regions in New Hampshire labeled fair...