Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identified the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna with the dollarsign. This year the "Interests" have been cleverly brought back to suit the shift in Hearst politics and, between them, the Messrs. Powers and Brisbane have personified the present-day Democracy as a female donkey called "Diamond Lil." They took the name from a play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece, getting blown out of her car by the Maine election, juggling issues in vaudeville, playing the stockmarket, etc., etc. Democratic...
Billie. If there was any ambiguity of gender in the title of George Cohan's most recent American musical play it was removed when pretty Polly Walker, in a fetching fluster, confessed: "That's my name, Billie, and my daddy's was the same, Billie." Her confession was made on first meeting Jackson (in the previously popular non-musical version known as "Broadway") Jones. He had inherited money from his uncle and Billie was his uncle's secretary. For commendable reasons, Billie wished Jackson not to sell the avuncular corporation, a chewing gum one; she urged...
Hats, Haberdashery. Dunlap & Co., famed hatters, have merged with Kaskel & Kaskel, less famed Manhattan haberdashers. Kaskel & Kaskel is the consolidation's name...
...guessed was a 300-word statement from John Jacob Raskob, which came like a knife-thrust in the market's back. With Arthur Cutten, and the Brothers Fisher, Mr. Raskob has stood in the front rank of the bulls. His slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers were preparing their formal edict...
...name has frequently been mentioned as being prominently identified with Chrysler Corp. and Radio. As a matter of fact I have never owned and do not own a single share of Chrysler Corporation stock, and the stock in the Radio Corp. which I hold was purchased outright by me a long while ago and held as an investment...