Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul V. McNutt, the much-hated autocrat of Indiana, although he had a good, safe, well-paid berth in Texas during the War, did not hesitate to shove aside those who had suffered hell in Flanders Field and grab for himself the fat salary and honors which the real soldiers...
...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...
...Burgoomaster" Looney's recipe for 1,000 pal. of burgoo: 800 lb. lean beef with no bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...
...decided to do something about it." By way of doing something about it, Mrs, Hugh Bullock, daughter-in-law of Investment Banker Calvin Bullock, announced in Manhattan the birth of the Academy of American Poets. Prime function of the Academy, as soon as Founder Bullock & friends can raise a fat endowment, will be to patronize eight or ten lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen...
...founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition as to reflect great credit upon his ability as a bank executive"; 2) president of a big construction company which got fat contracts at Boulder Dam and owns a 300,000-acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products Co.; 5) vice president & treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar, a big Mormon beet-sugar enterprise; 6) president of Stoddard Lumber Co. which cuts...