Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more vigorously with "Banish poison booze!" But last week's prophecy or announcement was boldest of all. The excuse for it: Gobel's promised to make "a generous cash contribution to a worthy society working for Prohibition reform" for each can of Gobel's Sugar Cured Ham sold...
President Firor is delighted with the beer & ham campaign, plans to use it throughout the land. He has selected the Woman's Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment as the organization to which the Gobel anti-Prohibition contributions go. He would not say last week how much cash each can of hash would yield...
...Author. Russel Grouse, colyumist of Manhattan's Evening Post ("Left at the Post"), also writes for the New Yorker, once acted in a play (Gentlemen of the Press) by munching a ham sandwich, darting into a telephone booth. Caustic playgoers called the sandwich appropriate...
Properties: the King-Emperor's spectacles (in his breast pocket), his speech (borne by his private secretary Baron Stamford-ham), his Throne (portable), the Chair (portable), and the Round Table consisting of two U-shaped tables, one within the other, both facing the Throne, seating together 86 delegates...
...Chicago." Even the effort of Chicago's Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson to swing the city's Negro vote to him had not hurt Mr. Lewis who joshed the Mayor for deserting his "political fiancee at the altar." One fact predominated: Illinois is Wet and so is "J. Ham" Lewis...