Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shares at 50 centavos (25?) below the market quotation, so alarmed were they over the economic consequences of independence. The Philippine Legislature, sitting as an Independence Commission, wrangled and haggled from dawn to dark over H. R. 7233. Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, denounced it as an insincere "joke," claimed it was foisted on the islands by National City Bank's investment in Cuban sugar. Cries of "Immediate independence or nothing!" rang through the chamber. Finally the legislature resolved to cable its Washington representatives that it was "willing" to have President Hoover sign the measure but not urging...
Wall Streeters were telling each other the above story last week as a joke, a puzzler. But in several places throughout the land businessmen were seriously experimenting with new kinds of money to lubricate their local credit systems. In 140 communities in 29 states, 1.000,000 citizens were solving their problems notably through the use of scrip and the foundation of barter associations. Examples...
...something worth while. Be clever and make the other fellow pay. Don't get caught. I have been fooling people all my life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting for. There were some I couldn't fool, but that's all right, because they were being fooled by someone else [Reed Smoot...
...meagre. But two tales told on Actress Cornell, whether or not apocryphal, are characteristic. One reflects her extraordinary modesty: Producer Gilbert Miller once telephoned from Manhattan to England to congratulate Actress Cornell on her birthday. She could not imagine anyone doing such a thing, thought someone was playing a joke, hung up. Another story indicates the utter seriousness with which Actress Cornell takes the theatre, no matter on which side of the footlights she happens to be. At a performance by Eleanora Duse, a celebrated actress and her companion assisted the audience in bringing the play to a momentary halt...
They were certainly not due to "acts of God." Nevertheless the insurance companies have refused to pay. Last week Shanghai police called the Chinese policy holders' bomb threats "extremely serious"." expressed fear that the British insurance jokers will lead to no joke...