Word: fo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soong will be China's General Johnson, assisted by his sister's stepson, potent Sun Fo (son of China's "George Washington," the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen) and Premier Wang Ching-wei. These three, according to the Chinese NEC law gazetted last week, will have "power to improve economic conditions, control and plan productive enterprises and protect the interests of workers." Just how they would do this Dr. Soong & colleagues were not quite sure last week, but they thought they might start by imposing some sort of code on China's cotton mills, predominantly owned...
...Beauchamp, British sportsman. Left. By Edwin Gould, second son of the late famed financier Jay Gould: $20,000,000 (estimated); half to his wife Sarah Cantine Schrady Gould, the balance (except for small miscellaneous bequests) to the Edwin Gould Foundation for children; income from the Foundation's share fo be paid to Sarah Gould during her life...
...Fo instance: James Vandudency, socialite, marries one Maggie Smith. Of course he couldn't marry more than one at the same time, even if there should be 10,000 Maggie Smiths. While telling us he married one, are we to understand he left a lot of them disconsolate...
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...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...