Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade and High Quest made 1934 Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's year, the efforts of his horses that year were not spectacularly gratifying, but the $1,000,000 came in handy. Young Turfman Vanderbilt enlarged his racing string to 56. mostly with a parcel of yearlings bought from Walter J. Salmon. This year, Vanderbilt horses have won 57 races, $15,.000 in prizes. It is most unlikely that, in his second season as a racehorse owner. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will fail to be the most successful one in the U. S. Last week...
...some $600,000 worth of jewelry disappeared from the Manhattan hotel room of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing...
...River (tributary of the Tennessee), had begun buying a power site. When 80% of the land for a reservoir had been acquired, TVA stepped in, bought two small tracts for "national park purposes," one of a few acres, the other 30 ft. by 50 ft. For the more minuscule parcel of land TVA paid $150 (compared to $4 or $5 paid by Aluminum Co. for similar land nearby) but it was worth it, for Aluminum Co. could not legally flood two "national parks...
...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...