Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Sunday big, breezy William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum tycoon, got an idea about cotton. On Monday he developed it. On Tuesday he announced that his company would (in effect) barter gum for cotton in the south, would use all sales receipts in that territory to buy up to 100,000,000 Ib. (200,000 bales) of cotton during the next eight months. The market price would be paid, provided it did not exceed 12? per Ib. Last week in the spot markets of the South cotton was selling around...
...Arizona slipped through Mona Pass and came to anchor at night off palm-fringed Ponce on the south coast of Porto Rico (see map, p. 8). Next morning President Hoover went ashore, was welcomed by Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico. Bands crashed. Natives cheered. For them it was a double holiday?the 58th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the second visit to Porto Rico by a U. S. President. At the City Hall the President was presented with a large tablecloth on which had been embroidered elaborate flower designs. Governor Roosevelt had asked President Hoover to leave...
...slightest interest in a situation which was . . . destroying the confidence of citizens in the integrity of the courts" and had shown indifference regarding "open and sordid corruption in the Police Department." The Governor sent the charges to the Mayor to answer upon his return to New York from Palm Springs. Calif...
Laugher Walker. Meantime, Mayor Walker had left town. Having previously announced that he would take a vacation on Samuel Untermyer's estate at Palm Springs, Calif, the Mayor slipped out of his office, crossed to Jersey City to avoid prying eyes and newshawks, boarded a Baltimore & Ohio R. R. official car with A. C. Blumenthal, Fox film executive, and Mr. Blumenthal's wife. A hat pulled down over his pinched face, he allowed a vigilant newspaper photographer one picture, said he "wanted to get away from all these investigations" (TIME, March...
Napi. Saxons imagine the Gauls to be the sexiest people; the Gauls modestly tender the palm to the Ottomans. It is natural, therefore, that Playwright Julius Berstl, a German, should have pictured Napoleon as a lecherous little character beloved by many beautiful women. It is also natural that the dramatist should have imagined that any other Frenchman who looked exactly like Napoleon would possess the same endearing attributes. The other Frenchman in Herr Berstl's play is small, goatlike Ernest Truex, who was last seen stamping around and fidgeting for Hortence Alden in Lysistrata...