Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal opponent of a Brookhart renomination is Henry ("Himself") Field who operates in Shenandoah a large general store and a broadcasting station (KFNF). Using his radio to ballyhoo his goods Storekeeper Field sells seeds, prunes, typewriters, hams, shirts, overalls, shoes paints, tires, pigs et al. His bargain announcements over the air bring country crowds flocking from miles to Shenandoah, much to the dismay of shopkeepers elsewhere. Candidate Field has never been in politics before, counts on his rural customers to start...
Papal encyclicals have been frequent during Depressions. The present Pope has not hesitated to denounce the evils of Capitalism. Though Papal utterances seldom descend to the denunciation of individuals, the collapse of Ivar Kreuger's crooked match empire (TIME, March 21 et seq.) was so fresh in the minds of the "Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and other Ordinaries'' to whom His Holiness addressed himself, that few doubted that Suicide Kreuger* was in the Pope's mind when he wrote: "If what the Holy Ghost affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more...
...revealed a brad lodged below the tonsils. After an operation to remove the brad, Gerald Bodine put in a damage claim. An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins, et...
Echo. An echo of Frances T. Wick et al. v. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. still reverberated in the Ohio courts last week. Frances T. Wick et al. were the complainants through whom Cyrus Stephen Eaton halted the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and so doing caused his own downfall (TIME, May 4, 1931 et seq.). The echo was an action by which Youngstown's minority sought to force the company to pay them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were...
...Long, now Louisiana's loud Senator (TIME, May 16 et ante) contributed: "I believe that this was one of the buildings for whose construction I was charged with the larceny of about a million dollars. As a matter of fact, the architect's estimate kept going up and I had to 'take' about two millions."- He promised ex officio that "there is not going to be anything but friendly relations between the medical schools of Tulane and L. S. U. . . . The Governor . . . sits on the boards of both institutions...