Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Louis F. ("Lou") Magnolia (né Magliola), boxing referee famed for his feline springs and crouches to follow the fighters in the ring; of cancer; in Queens, N. Y. His most celebrated decision: disqualifying Phil Scott of England in his bout with Jack Sharkey (Miami...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt set out for a 7 a. m. canter through Washington's Potomac Park to see the cherry and magnolia trees in bloom. With her rode Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Federal Farm Board chairman, and President Roosevelt's Secretary Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Roosevelt's horse slid on the muddy bridlepath, fell to its knees. Mrs. Roosevelt was thrown into a mud puddle. Muddied but unhurt, she remounted, rode on until...
...farm. At Pine Bluff, Ark. a State judge, presented with 500 foreclosure petitions, intoned: "The case against the debtor will be continued for the term. I'm not going to foreclose on any farm where the people . . . have any chance of pulling through." A judge at Magnolia, Miss, likewise declined to force farms to sale; he said it was like "giving away property...
Helen-Morgan in the full flush of her personality is there to sing "Bill," and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." There is Norma Terriss as Magnolia. There is the unforgettable undertone of "Ol' Man River...
Pure Oil. Shell, Consolidated, Texas and Gulf. White Eagle and Magnolia, subsidiaries of Socony-Vacuum, fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide...