Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of the Mississippi delegation to the Philadelphia Party (TIME, July 6) is amusing. But how could anyone accumulate so much fat in three years? Could it possibly have been grafted from a pork barrel...
...Before the figure of King Henry VIII in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks last week halted His Highness the Sheik of Bahrein, recently decorated by King Edward VIII (TIME. July 6), and loudly exclaimed with a gesture of disdain: "I do not like this big fat man who killed his wives...
Under the Jones-White Act of 1928, the Government agreed to lend shipping companies up to 75% of construction costs, pay them fat mail contracts to subsidize operations. This indirect subsidy was still not enough to put U. S. ships on an equal competitive footing with directly subsidized foreign liners...
...Dallas. Last week new Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins lopped the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram off the Scripps-Howard chain. Founded in 1851, bought by Scripps-Howard in 1922, ailing since 1929, the Telegram was devoured by its local opposition, the stout old Youngstown Vindicator, left the city with one fat newspaper called The Youngstown Vindicator and The Youngstown Telegram...
...years past, last week "Fat" Peirce circulated among his alumni, exhibited his trick of never forgetting a face. To commemorate his original arrival he let students haul him up the road to the President's house in a dusty rattletrap buggy. Then able "Fat" Peirce dropped a word of his own. Having pushed Kenyon's scholarship up to the standards of Carnegie Foundation for Teaching, thereby winning a pension for all Kenyon faculty men over 70, he announced that he "would not like to form an exception to this desirable arrangement," that he would retire next year...