Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
Since SEChairman Kennedy is known to favor "goldfish bowl'' publicity for corporate salaries, last week's action foreshadowed more disclosures at the expense of executives who do not want the world to know what they are making. Not yet released from SEC's "confidential" files are the salaries of such tycoons as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel...
...miniature, it was. Just two years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark...
Divorced. Maurice ("Buddy") Maschke Jr., Cleveland attorney and son of Cleveland's onetime Republican boss; by Helen Morgan, piano-sitting soprano; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was cruel to her, mistreated her goldfish...
...House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...