Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known all along that his bank was insolvent, had seen to it that the bulk of Penney deposits was withdrawn before the bank went under. Young Jim Penney went to Wyoming for his health and while clerking in a store got the idea of building a chain. His original "Golden Rule Stores" grew into J. C. Penney Co. with 1,471 units in 48 States and an annual business of $155,000,000. Last week from his home in White Plains, N. Y. James Cash Penney dismissed the depositors' charges as "un-true." His attorney stated that in addition...
...infant candidates with trinkets and toys among which were placed relics made holy by the previous Living Buddha. The child who touched a relic became the Dalai Lama. But no such method was used when, half a century ago, a Dalai Lama died. Instead, the abbot of the Golden Monastery picked a new one merely by beholding, in a chill Tibetan lake, a vision of the birthplace, parents and person of the child Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. Taking office in 1893, this Dalai Lama distinguished himself in other ways. Previously all his predecessors in modern times had died...
...Golden Rule Conference...
...Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean the true goodwill of the true good neighbor. ... As President Roosevelt has defined the 'good neighbor,' he resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others...
...thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...