Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the fall of William Fox, his big film company was tossed gingerly about Wall Street for a long time. Several attempts were made to toss it to the public, but in the end Fox Film Corp. came to rest on the broad lap of Chase National Bank (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). Chase through its oldtime officer Edward Richmond Tinker tried to run the company from Wall Street, but after four months it called in Paramount's able Sidney Kent, made him president. Chairman Tinker stayed on to work out a financial reorganization. Last week Chase...
Possibly to avoid having all these matters dumped on his lap at once until he can think his way through them. General Johnson is not to be found in Room 3053 at the Commerce Building, as advertised. Instead he sits alone behind an unmarked door many yards away...
Visiting U. S. Minister Charles Calmer Hart in Teheran, Persia, Theodore Roosevelt was hospitalized for two days when a waiter, one T. Birjand, spilled a boiling samovar into his lap...
When President Roosevelt signed his Economy Bill last March and decreed drastic reductions in the pension rolls, he was one long lap ahead of the veterans' lobby. By last week the veterans' lobby had not only caught up with him but was rapidly undoing his Budget savings. At its prodding the Senate had openly revolted against the President and Speaker Rainey was predicting that the House could no longer be held in line...
...grave. The convicts pushed Mr. Wood out, put on the women's coats, drove to a wooded spot near Pleasanton, Kans. They behaved good-naturedly when Louise Wood, 17, declared: "You can shoot me if you want to, but I'll not sit on your lap." That evening the women and the convicts appeared at a farmer's house. The men cut the telephone wires, demanded food, clothing, firearms, got them. They left the women there, unharmed...