Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover stayed on an extra night at his camp when his telephone line was cut in on a call from Paris to the State Department and he heard Secretary Stimson report: "The atmosphere here is good. There is nothing at the moment to be pessimistic about. The meeting of the French Premier and German Chancellor was perfectly pleasant and agreeable...
...Mexico penitentiary for his imprisonment. The change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...
Fortuitously Marcus Daly then met Dr. John H. Durston, a learned philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work...
...schoolmaster tells his class of 16 to write him a future conditional sentence. Seventeen answers are handed in; the extra one reads: 'Tf you do not come to me, I shall come...
Many a feature-writer has culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality...