Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easing back in their red leather chairs one afternoon last week, homesick Senators yawned and dozed through a drearisome duet by their reading clerk and the Vice President of the U. S. Twice as fast and half as intelligible as a train announcer, the clerk rattled out the amendments by which the Senate Finance Committee had revamped the House's tax bill into something more suitable to Franklin Roosevelt. Whenever the clerk's voice dropped, John Nance Garner mumbled: ''Without objection, adopted...
...Leather. Meanwhile most solvent corporations will continue to thresh out recapitalization plans with security holders and creditors outside the courts. Two notable companies which have completed this process are Wilson & Co. and Armour & Co. One still in the throes of reorganization without recourse to Section 77b last week was American Hide & Leather...
...which prints without charge buyers' listings. According to the Times, business was so active that no less than 4,181 buyers had registered in July, highest number since 1929. And the extraordinary influx of retailers' representatives seeking not only clothing for men, women & children but also jewelry, leather goods, draperies, toilet goods, toys, house furnishings, bedding, linen, fur coats, floor coverings, silverware, watches, stationery, continued to swell New York's population on into August...
Certain are Zita and her advisers that Prince von Starhemberg as Regent would be another detestable throne-squatter like the one in Budapest who will not get up. There lantern-jawed, leather-necked old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya has reigned 15 years as Regent-presumably for Otto who is indisputably the rightful Habsburg heir to Hungary's crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name...
...Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough into which the scorched leather soles of his shoes were thrust...