Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mount Holyoke's Roswell Gray Ham: "We should not be swept away...
Minor Long's Ray System languished. Meantime Townsendism and Ham & Eggs ($30 Every Thursday) flourished all around him. Because the famed Ham & Eggs plan, like his own, entails circulating warrants, Minor Pierce Long last month went to Federal court in San Francisco, asked Judge Martin I. Welsh to halt preparations for California's Ham & Eggs referendum November 7. Judge Welsh issued a temporary injunction, threw a bad scare into Ham & Eggers. Last week Judge Welsh agreed with Minor Pierce Long that Ham & Eggs and the Ray System resemble each other in some respects. But he found "no identity...
...mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode up & down Owosso's Main Street; he posed chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that FBI's John Edgar Hoover had jailed Lepke Buchalter...
...Union gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the whole thing...
...initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico has XAA through XFZ. Hungary has HAA through HAZ, including a station HAM...