Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharply did this last seem aimed at Japan's position in China that the world cocked an eye at Washington, where Japan's chief delegate to the London Conference, Viscount Ishii, was momentarily due, to sit on President Roosevelt's famed black leather couch and talk as friends, face to face, about what the world needed. It even looked as though President Roosevelt, having melted Europe's frozen attitudes, was prepared to cool the runaway conflagration in Asia...
...Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day in October 1929, Mr. Mitchell turned to the House of Morgan for a $12,000,000 loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every...
...logs, insulated from the pavement by sand. A thumping band blared out old military marches. Toward midnight a procession entered the square, headed by officers of the University's student dueling corps in their dress uniforms: blue tunics, white breeches, plush tam o'shanters and spurred patent leather jack boots. Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students clung to the trucks, waving flaring torches that they hurled through the air at the log pile. Blue flames of gasoline shot up, the pyre blazed. One squad of students formed...
...Harvard Liberal Club, have decided to support about 350 of the 900 workers at the A. R. Hyde Shoe Company. These laborers have been out on strike for seven weeks in an endeavor to secure "better wages, decent working conditions, and the recognition of the National Shoe and Leather Workers Union...
...Great Britain the Budget is an ancient red leather despatch box which rests on a table in the House of Commons and for most of the year serves as a convenient elbow rest for weary orators. In parliamentary language the British Budget is not "presented" but "opened" once a year. No opening is so well attended, for what the box contains vitally affects the pocket of every inhabitant of Great Britain. For the second time in his career, greying, long-necked Neville Chamberlain opened the Budget last week in a speech that took two hours and left most...