Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Cardenas stretched forth his right hand, empty and palm downward...
...Anderson went among his rich socialite friends at Palm Beach and Bar Harbor and discovered the existence of a Research Investigation Committee. Members include John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Mrs. Elisha Dyer Hubbard, and Consuelo Vanderbilt's father-in-law, Sydney J. Smith. They helped to fill editorial wastebaskets with querulous complaints about Dr. Koch's "persecutions...
...President Roosevelt sent a palm wreath to the tomb of President Harding at Marion, Ohio...
...unfriendly ear. Result: rumbling rumors. As far back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy secret conference as to whether the Post should continue its bombardment of the Roosevelt Administration...
...soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm-fertile jungle which the late great imperialist King Leopold II had opened for exploitation...