Word: nil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving Monsanto management to his son, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, who had been president since 1927. Tall, dark, brisk President Queeny lives on a 500-acre farm in St. Louis County, rides horseback every morning before going to work. He boasts that "Monsanto's net contribution to ... unemployment . . . was nil," since he never laid off a man during Depression, has twice as many people working for him now as in 1931. Satisfied, too, is Monsanto's Queeny that the firm's market is so diversified that no more than about 10% of Monsanto's gross profit comes...
...Filipinos being "great lovers," there is nothing surprising about that. We Filipinos, however poor, are taught from the cradle up to respect and love our women. That's why our divorce rate is nil compared with the State of which Judge Lazarus is a proud son. If to respect and love womenfolks is savagery, then make the most of it, Judge. We plead guilty...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
Since the President did not choose to cancel Ambassador William Christian Bullitt's credentials, the only U. S. move in Moscow last week was to reduce the Embassy staff almost to nil, Mr. Bullitt being left alone with three officers. The Counselor of Embassy, professional brains of any diplomatic mission in which the chief is noncareer, has been Mr. Bullitt's good friend John Wiley who last week was transferred to Antwerp to be the U. S. Consul General...
...other picture at the University now, a word of praise for Allen Jenkins and William Gargan, for the rest of the cast, the director, and the whole movie--well, we wont say anything because we believe in the old Latin proverb which says "de mortuis nil nisi bonum...