Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Club in celebration of the sinking of the Lusitania and was asked to resign. When the U. S. went to war Hanfstaengl was in Manhattan tending the family's branch store and could not get back to Germany. On his return in 1922 he threw in his lot with an obscure troublemaker named Adolf Hitler. By last week he was Chancellor Hitler's best personal friend, his liaison officer with the U. S. and British Press, his favorite pianoplayer...
...owner of an excelsior mill, a cold-storage plant and a road building firm, Senator Thayer maintains he is "just a simple farmer." But: "I did a lot of wandering when I was a young fellow." Shortly after the century's turn, he helped found a small local power company in Chateaugay. About 1925 he and his fellow Chateaugayans sold out to Associated Gas & Electric. "And here's the funny thing," he explained last week. "After we sold out . . . we found that the 20-year franchise had ended in 1923, and we had forgotten all about...
...long enough to print the lists of U. S. ticket holders in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Last week, when Miss Paget's Golden Miller won the Grand National at Aintree, U. S. newspaper readers once more enjoyed in full the vicarious pleasure of seeing someone else win a lot of money. In Woodside. L. I., lived the biggest U. S. winner-Mrs. William Meringer, whose ticket on Golden Miller was worth $150,000. She got her ticket, she said, from her Austrian husband. William Meringer told an unlikely story of how he had come by it. Into the Bronx...
...time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern Paper. While answering the buzzer, he got to know another young Lee, Higginson employe named Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., who knew a lot about Freeport Texas. Jock Whitney became Freeport's largest stockholder and a director. He drifted away from Lee, Higginson to manage his race horses and polo ponies and now rarely spends more than three months a year in Manhattan. The man who upped Jock Whitney from a director to a full-fledged...
...which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack Oakie and Spencer Tracy say a lot of funny things...