Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile in Italy every newsorgan which reported the doings in London spoke, of Haile Selassie by his family name, "Signore Tafari." However, nobody much bothered to read the papers. All Italy was rapturously celebrating the return from Ethiopia of its Conqueror. His skin seemed suntanned to the toughness of leather. Moist upon it were the kisses of Benito Mussolini as II Duce embraced and smacked on both cheeks grizzled, tough, triumphant Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Viceroy of Ethiopia...
Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...brought out the fact that Adman Bates had contracted to buy Jim Thomas' unwritten memoirs for $100,000 and had just given him a $76,000 house as part payment. For three days immediately after the Cabinet Ministers were told the contents of Neville Chamberlain's red leather Budget box, Alfred Bates and Jim Thomas played golf together. On the stand last week Jim Thomas' hearty voice became the humblest murmur...
Members of the lordly National Academy of Sciences (membership limited to 300) and a few outsiders listened attentively last week from their comfortable leather chairs when old Dr. Boas stood up in the Academy's severe, oak-paneled lecture room to deliver what was probably his last public address as a practicing scientist. Next month Dr. Boas will retire from the faculty of Columbia University, which he joined 40 years...
...Philadelphia the spotlight centered on four rangy, good-natured University of Texas runners who advertised their State's Centennial celebration by staging their first practice session in ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots, leather jackets. First day of the meet they changed to shorts and silk jerseys, trotted out to show spectators how they had smashed the world's record for the 880-yd. relay a fortnight before in Austin...