Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Manufacturers was waxing fat under its new regime, another prominent Manhattan bank was growing lean. Last Jan. 3 the deposits of Chatham Phenix National Bank were $17,000,000 greater than those of Manufacturers; on Nov. 28 they were $94,000,000 less. The loss had been 31% and accompanying it were many rumors, one of which caused the bank to order the arrest of a customer's man (TIME, Sept. 7). The case was not pressed, but loose talk continued. Widely expected was a merger involving Chatham Phenix and another large bank, two or three being mentioned...
...land knows more active newsmen than long, lean James D. ("Jim") Preston, 55-year-old superintendent of the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. Last week he decided he knew too many for his own good health, resigned the post he has ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston...
Long scrutiny of ducks has given lean, bristle-lipped Tetsuzan ("Iron Mountain") Hori one great round eye, another squinted to half the normal size. Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still...
...Lean Cornish spatfalls will have no appreciable effect on Edward of Wales's income. Beside the Cornish oyster beds, H. R. H. receives the entire income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a thoughtful provision made by Edward III in 1337. Nowadays the gross income is about $1,250,000 a year. After deducting expenses, salaries, donations, H. R. H. has about $25,000 a month left...
...found him last May in the Gallery Zak in Paris-a long, lean, morose Frenchman by the name of Mouillot...