Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki Japanese antiquaries and curio dealers have come to know a U. S. citizen with white hair and glittering spectacles who approaches them smiling politely, holds his finger tips close together and cries over & over "Chiisai! Chiisai! Small! Small!" It is Jules Charbneau of Mount Clemens, Mich, on one of his round-the-world trips searching for minuscule knickknacks. Many collections of little things, from the elder J. P. Morgan's miniatures to Queen Mary's doll house, are better known and of greater artistic worth, but none is larger than the Jules Charbneau...
...Mount Prospect, Ill., four brash bank bandits roared up to the Mount Prospect State Bank waving a machine gun, ran toward the door, read the sign on the doorhandle, "Out to lunch," raced back to their car and roared away...
Thus warmly in Manhattan last week did Vice President & General Manager Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this pious point home, declaring that: "From time immemorial, people have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of their loved ones. In a greater sense this has been a service to the living. By keeping these last resting places as hallowed spots...
...authorize a $45,000,000 first mortgage and to increase immediately the company's outstanding first mortgage indebtedness. ... In the last five years following borrowings of $30,000,000 through issuance of long-term debentures Goodrich stockholders have seen losses from the company's operations mount to a total of $24,832,000 and have stood by without dividends and with the market value of their holdings gradually diminishing. In the same five years Goodyear has shown profits of $20,965,000 and Firestone $17,463,000. The company now proposes, without giving adequate reasons for doing...
...water carrier, bus and air lines under a reconstituted Interstate Commerce Commission until the next session of Congress. ¶ Mme Lebrun, wife of the President of France, arrived in the U. S. on the Normandie's maiden voyage. Last week before returning on the same ship she visited Mount Vernon, Arlington Cemetery and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. Overwhelmed with the official attention she received, Mme Lebrun modestly declared: "In France I am only the wife of the President...