Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana, taught his son to spend liberally. The elder Clark built a 130-room house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, equipped it with a $3,000,000 art collection, a $120,000 gold dinner service. Senator Clark was a mule-skinner before he made his copper fortune. Son William had earlier advantages, took to them more quietly. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, acquired a love for books which has led to one of the most important private collections in the world. Old Senator Clark spent three...
...Wayne County, N. C., a depressed farmer cut off the rear end of his disused' automobile, fastened shafts to the axle, backed in a mule, went riding. Other farmers, unable to buy 23c gasoline with 7c cotton or $5 tires with n^ tobacco, did the same. Soon the roads of eastern North Carolina were overrun with similar vehicles pulled by mules, horses, oxen, goats or a pair of husky boys. North Carolinians, many of whom had been Hoovercrats in 1928, transposed two letters of the term, called their conveyances Hoovercarts...
...could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro businessmen offered prizes to winners of chariot races, mulecart races, goatcart races; races of carts with pneumatic tires, carts with straw-stuffed tires, carts with...
...museum founder, Mr. Huntington is chiefly responsible for the Museum of the Hispanic Society of America and the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Last year he set aside a section of his estate near Camden, S. C. as a sanctuary for ancient mules and offered to pay $20 apiece for broken down jacks and jennies until the mule migration from North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama became more than he could cope with...
Died. Jerome A. Colvin, 59, horse & mule dealer, brother-in-law of Vice President Charles Curtis; of indigestion; in Topeka...