Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...
Washington Irving Moss, president of New Orleans' receivershipped Union Indemnity Co. (TIME, Jan. 16), resigned as board chairman of Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. Succeeded by his old associate, Felix P. Vaccaro, he will continue as a vice president "to devote myself whole heartedly to the ... company." Reason: "As president of Union Indemnity ... I have been subjected to some unfriendly criticism, which, no matter how unjustified, might reflect itself disadvantageously upon Standard Fruit...
...winter and summer feeding grounds, without asking anyone's permission, and because Laplanders live entirely upon reindeer, they have become nomads of necessity. Reindeer . . . feed themselves; and even when the snow is three feet deep, the animals dig holes in the snow and can be seen eating reindeer moss, standing on their heads with only their wagging tails visible...
Then the Brothers Moss-Mike (not Michael) and Washington Irving-worked their way into the good graces of the Brothers Vaccaro. The Mosses ran a small insurance agency inherited from their father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling...
Entrepreneur Moss insisted on naming the new vessel Explorer. This disappointed Designer Lake who, because the small submarine can trundle sidewise over the sea floor, ached to call her Crab...