Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From thousands of county agents bumping over back roads inspecting crops, talking to farmers and smalltown bankers, the Crop Reporting Board in Washington last week received the year's most important reports. Led by William Forrest Callander, a jovial, blue-eyed gentleman who was a dirt farmer before he studied law at Georgetown, the Board took its secrets into a room high up in the Agriculture building, locked itself in until its tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room...
...Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau, sunburned and jovial after a month on a Montana ranch, heard the new drum thumping, was not greatly alarmed. To the Press he promptly gave a tart answer...
...Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...
...virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue...
...that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders" and whose sworn purpose...