Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States with No Cotton Laws but to repeal and pass other laws, necessitating other special sessions of legislatures if anything is to be done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton prohibition in the South would play into the hands of the Egypt, Russia et al; he knew the economic loss the South would suffer from no cotton; loss from employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers of loss employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers. He knew that the South would miss the money its crop...
...Federal efforts to halt the rapid spread of New York's cordial & beverage shops where almost anybody can buy a bottle of gin for a dollar. Two years ago, one of the first to open was the shop at No. 201 East 44th Street (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930 et seq.). Gin. whiskey, brandy and liqueurs were openly displayed, openly sold. While the proprietor, one Mike, openly scoffed, while a Columbia University student wrote to President Hoover about it, the U. S. District Attorney's office said the matter would be taken up in "regular" order, indictments would...
...Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, for his exemplary stock farm at Angora, from Manhattan sailed six U. S. pedigreed cows, two bulls, four heifers, gifts from President Wilfred Washington Fry of N. W. Ayer & Co. Hoover of (advertising), Hoover President Vacuum Herbert Cleaner W. Co., Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, et...
...Arthur Garfield Hays and astute Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from...
...commission was to iron out differences, but the new canon was certain to give divorced persons a chance-"1,000 chances," one bishop called it-to be remarried in the Church. They could appeal to an ecclesiastical court which might annul their previous marriages under certain "impediments"-impotence, insanity, et at. By admitting testimony which did not appear in the original divorce suit, the court could nullify a marriage and still evade the hated word. Divorce...