Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom, German journalism was close to the rocks. Chiefly to blame, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, who censors and blights the Fatherland's news, last week berated German editors because "the published word no longer has its former effect. The reader has become a mule. . . . There has now reappeared the old 'vocal newspaper,' the passing of news from mouth to mouth. The reader is not responsible: the newspapers are responsible! They are losing ground because they satisfy only 40% of the readers' curiosity instead...
Died. Woodford Fitch ("Wood") Axton, 63, president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., largest independent tobacco company in the world, maker of Spuds, 10? cigarets (Twenty Grand) & smoking tobacco (White Mule, Old Loyalty); of heart disease; at Wildwood, near Skylight, Ky. A thoroughly enlightened capitalist, he limited his salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank...
...roars as two men come back into the ring for the last fall. They stand for a moment in their corners, shifting their feet in the rosin, then turn upon each other as the bell clangs. They come together warily. The little man steps in suddenly and shoots a mule-kick to the pit of the stomach. The big ogre roars with pain, points a finger at the referee, implores the crowd. As he does this the little man flashes in to kick him again, harder. This time the ogre drops to the floor roaring pitifully. The crowd cheers...
When Franklin Roosevelt took office he was deliberately backward about naming deserving Democrats to office. Instead, he dangled appointments before Congress like clover before a mule, easily guided legislators along the road he chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched...
...last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from Reynolds Chewing tobacco (Schnapps, Micky, Brown's Mule, Day's Work) and from Prince Albert, fastest selling pipe tobacco...