Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket which has been growing in New York for some five months. The formula: A "protective association" demands that the garage owner force his employes to join a "union," pay a $10 initiation fee and $2 monthly dues from each man's wages. Refusal brings attempts to lure away his patrons, violence to himself and cars. The racket is spreading rapidly. In Brooklyn last week four thugs tied up a garage watchman, rolled him under an automobile, slashed the upholstery of ten cars...
...with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers...
...light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...
...Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard as the best all-round collection in the world.* Mammals, reptiles, insects have...
...Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers in recent years seriously went after the Canadian Cousin's subscription. The small plum of Canadian distribution found its way almost unsought into U. S. circulation puddings. Canadian circulation of a U. S. periodical holds little lure for big-advertising, international industries like General Motors, Campbell's, Pepsodent, Squibb, Swift, Westclox et al. which manufacture in Canada, must stress that point in special copy directed at their Canadian consumers through Canadian publications. Result: in three years Canadian distribution of the ten leading U. S. magazines...