Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bread and feedstuffs were not the only commodities to enjoy the boom. Though little affected by drought except in the Southeast, cotton soared above 13½? per lb. The year's low was about 10?, and in cotton a 1? change means at least $50,000,000 to the South. What gave cotton its big push last week was a government report estimating the total planting on July 1 at 30,600,000 acres. Though that was a gain over last year's unusually small acreage, it was still 26% below the old-time average. Meantime world cotton...
Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality." The brand of Arkansas hospitality accorded Preacher Williams and Miss Blagden last week swung the spotlight of national attention on the 1936 Arkansas sharecroppers' strike which had been fumbling along unnoticed for four weeks...
...Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was a matter Don Manuel did not mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus...
...Adman William B. ("Bill") Benton retired from his Manhattan firm of Benton & Bowles. Many a Yale graduate has vowed he would make a fortune in a hurry, then retire while he could enjoy it. Adman Benton actually...
...before the modern world, contained careful expositions of Communism and Revolution, gave a general impression of intelligent inconclusiveness, of dismay before the towering threats to contemporary society. Last week Vincent Sheean followed his best-selling (100,000 copies) autobiography with a volume which, while it seemed less likely to enjoy popular favor, was even more clearly in the nature of a call to readers to consider seriously the future, to appreciate fully the consequences of social irresponsibility, inertia and misjudgment...