Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic theory of New Deal economy has been that the Federal Government should spend in lean years, save in fat ones. Last week, while many another U. S. citizen had begun to wonder whether the country was on the verge of a major business slump, the President made it clear by his saving intentions that he finally felt that the lean years were over. The week began with a new budget estimate showing a net deficit of $695,000,000 for fiscal 1938, $277,000,000 more than had been estimated last April (see p. 19). During the rest...
David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...
After lean years come fat years. This year the land is particularly fat with corn and cotton. Last week, therefore, the corn surplus was dumped squarely on the White House portico. Heading a delegation of midwest farm leaders, President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation informed President Roosevelt that Government corn loans of 60?-per-bu. were imperative. Said Farmer O'Neal: "The condition of farm crop prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting...
...head of fractious livestock and 200 cowboys and cowgirls clattered into New York's Madison Square Garden last week for the 12th annual World's Championship Rodeo, one important face was missing, the fat, wrinkled features of Promoter William T. Johnson. After eight years in his highly speculative business. Promoter Johnson had sold his rodeo livestock, equipment and Garden contracts, (New York and Boston), retired to devote all his time to his three great ranches in Texas. His former roaring, rollicking exhibition, however, went right on last week to shatter last year's attendance records...
...have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical romance, And So-Victoria, which since publication ten weeks ago has been filling reader "voids" at the rate of 14,000 per week.* Offered U. S. readers last week, So Great a Man was expected to do as well. U. S. booksellers, acting on advance tips that the book "will...