Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosperity Josh...
...used to better inform such as may be interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics for the anti-Townsend-Planners to treat it as seriously as occasions may advise. . . . R. M. MCCABE Editor
Harvard's first non-graduate coach was none other than Lieutenant "Pat" Graves who came from West Point to coach the Harvard line in 1907 when Josh Crane was head coach. He continued his fine work at West Point to such an extent that he continued under Haughton in the early days of that great coach's regime...
Then in a Wall Street tussle Josh Cosden lost his shirt, his homes and his company, which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. With $3,000,000 put up by his friends, the slim, personable oilman retreated to Texas, there to build another Cosden Oil and another $15,000,000 fortune...
Depression pushed Cosden Oil Co. into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...