Word: nurseryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean up the city's voting which culminated in the celebrated indictment of 199 Pendergast heelers for fraud. Then Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, a prosperous nurseryman elected with Pendergast support, unexpectedly rebelled by appointing a new election board of whose four members, Tom Pendergast howled, only one was a "real Democrat." This year, when President Roosevelt reappointed District Attorney Milligan over Harry Truman's lone Senate dissent, many a Missourian concluded that the nation...
...Nurseryman Zielsdorf was apprised of his good fortune by "The Court of Missing Heirs," a bright radio idea of Skelly Oil Co. Aimed by Skelly Oil point-blank at that immense and sanguine section of the U. S. public which succumbs to bank night and sweepstakes tickets and dreams of unforeseen inheritances, the Court of Missing Heirs is not yet two months old but is already a radio success. Skelly filling stations are confined to the Midwest, so Skelly's Court of Missing Heirs is confined to 29 Columbia Broadcasting System and other Midwest stations. Dramatized each week...
...price of $2 for 15 cubic centimetres, which, diluted upwards of 6,000 times, is enough for about 1,500 cuttings. Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. markets it under the name of "Auxilin" at a price of $1 per half ounce. The prospect is that in ten years the nurseryman who neglects to stimulate his cuttings with root activators will be as old-fashioned as a railroad with wood-burning locomotives...
...Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...
...longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory...