Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a name that sounds like a sneeze, Hsieh Kai-shih (pronounced sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...March President George Cooper of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. of Louisville, Ky., reduced the price of a 15? cigaret called Wings to 10?. Production of Wings doubled in a month. Although White Rolls and Paul Jones had fallen off a little. Wings' sales boosted the ten-centers' average to 5% or 6% of the national total. By May Wings had slowed the decline in national cigaret production which had been going on all year. Wings did not advertise in newspapers, but blurbs on the cheap brown paper package told smokers that they could not smoke Cellophane. In June...
...Louisville, Ky., having cut off the ear of Raymond Harrington, 25, two months ago because she thought him unfaithful, Eva Mae Powell, 23, set fire to herself, suffering serious burns from knees to shoulders. She explained, "I'm paying back...
Longest run of the week-10-5 yd.-was Herb McAnly's, helping Florida swamp Sewanee, 19 to 0. Biggest score of the week-105 to 0-was by Murray (Ky.) Teachers College, scoreless in its first two games, against the University of Louisville...
...demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members, called the Admiral's resignation...