Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more profitable than was ever before dreamed of. As an example of one man who struck when the iron was hot, consider the not inappropriately named Chick Sale. He made a fairly sizeable fortune by writing a rather dull book on nothing more exciting than a privy--it really isn't very exciting--and he sustained it by donning a false beard and making equivocal remarks for vaudeville audiences...
...Chicago's First National Bank of Englewood, and that was the way of one Lilian Cousins in a gushing article last year in the Carpentersville (Ill.) Fox Valley Mirror.* Another way appeared a few years ago in a banker- written letter to the American Banker: "Mr. Nichols isn't a banker and what he has in Englewood is not a bank. It is a cash register." Whatever John Milton Nichols may be, he has set something of a record for financial exhibitionism in the past three years. He got his headline tag of "100%" by liquidating loans...
...Tory, you're a prince of privilege, you're a reactionary, or you're an economic royalist. Now, my dear ladies, bear in mind that ... the smear department of the [Democratic] National Committee will be working overtime tonight to see if it isn't possible to tie you all up to the predatory interests...
...plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First Baseman Gehrig: "This fellow Hubbell . . . isn't much on conversation...
...maximum and minimum stated values in gold. As evidence of its sincerity it cut tariffs yesterday to the extent of 15 to 20 per cent. There will be howls of rage and vigorous pressure applied upon the government as a consequence of this action, but, provided the Blum government isn't unhorsed in the kaleidoscopic changes of French politics, there is some hope of having stable monetary markets. However enduring the present French government, the transition from a gold-standard country to a nation with a devalued, regulated currency, accompanied by lower tariffs, adjusted wages, and higher prices, will...