Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover and all G. O. Policies. Resounding popular demonstrations greeted him everywhere. Even in Washington the House Ways & Means Committee gave him its respectful attention while he flayed the present currency system. The citizens of Charlotte, N. C. shrieked with ignorant delight when he cracked an obsolete joke which the audience thought was an original Alfalfaism.* The South Carolina General Assembly listened in rapt attention while he outlined the economic and political dangers ahead...
...years the "five-and-ten-cent store" has occupied a position of increasing stability in the merchandising scheme, hence has figured in joke and song ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10? Store"). But last week Hubert Templeton Parson, president of F. W. Woolworth Co., said that his red-fronted emporiums may become "5, 10 & 20? Stores." The experiment will be tried first in the West and South, then, if successful, will become permanent policy in the 1,905 Woolworth stores. Reason for the change was thought to be that lower commodity prices make available...
...Manhattan he has an ugly house, which he shares with his sister and which he likes to joke about. He goes to a few concerts, but eschews exercise of any sort...
...large amount on other horses in the race at the last minute, to make the odds on Linden Tree go up. Three days later, Baron Long, hotelman and part-owner of the Agua Caliente track, admitted he had done the tampering. He said he had done it for a joke, to revenge himself on bookmakers who had played the same joke on him (TIME...
...ship's bar and chuckling at their mal de mer. It would be absurd to think that Edward R. Tinker would endanger the prestige of the Chase National Bank by wearing the false whiskers of a Damascus fortune teller, calling his wife Momma or cracking such a joke as "it won't be long now." Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile millionaire in Asia Minor as a preliminary...