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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...
...left-wing versions, the Communists set up a Soviet government in south China, defeated five armies that Chiang Kai-shek sent against them, and ruled 80 million people with unparalleled benevolence. According to Chiang Kaishek, they degenerated into marauding bandits who were completely wiped out in a series of anti-Red campaigns. But in both right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang...
Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...
...three pennants in a row, was so invincible that Philadelphia fans became bored with it and stayed away from Shibe Park. The Athletics lost money, and, as in 1914, Connie Mack started to sell out. Owner Thomas Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox paid him almost half a million dollars to get Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Bob Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop. The Chicago White Sox bought Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons, George Haas, George Earnshaw. Detroit took Mickey Cochrane to manage the Tigers. In 1936 Connie Mack, not looking very different from the way he looked 22 years before...
...deposits in Los Angeles' Guaranty Building and Loan Association in 1930, find it difficult to forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original...