Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
Last January the grandson, Wilfred Chester Leland Jr., walked uninvited into an "old times party" at the Ford Laboratory in Dearborn and slapped into the lean hands of Henry Ford a long-delayed subpoena ordering him to appear and testify in a suit brought by a onetime Philadelphia Lincoln agency. Henry Ford never testified, but he and his son Edsel furnished depositions in which they denied, as they have always done, any agreement to pay off Lincoln's former creditors and stockholders. Last week an eleven-man jury (one was dismissed for expressing his opinion of Henry Ford ) ordered...
...Small, lean Edward Arthur Hayes. 42. a Decatur, Ill. lawyer, was elected National Commander, succeeding Louis Johnson of Clarksburg. W Va. Son of an Irish immigrant Commander Hayes joined the Navy in 1917 as apprentice seaman, was soon commissioned an ensign. He served at Great Lakes Naval Training Station as aide to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. After the War he resumed his law practice, helped organize the Decatur Legion Post, became Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large...
...peak volume of cotton textile exports. In 1929 Britain exported 3,866,000,000 square yards, Japan 1,418,000,000. What Japan has done is to filch Britain's customary lion's share of what cotton textile orders the East has to give in this lean year...
With a few-unimportant exceptions the big-league orchestras have kept their old lineups and star performers. Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...