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...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
Colgate's pea-&-shell game baffled Rutgers...
Died. Clyde ("Pea Ridge"-from Pea Ridge, Ark. his hometown) Day, 32, baseball pitcher for Brooklyn, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other teams, known for his eccentricities and hog-calling; by his own hand (slashing his throat); in Kansas City...
...much time explaining the change that Tom Huston finally wrote a booklet : What Happened to Tom Huston - The Whole Story in a Peanut Shell. Son of a Texas peanut planter, he started to toast peanuts in a small shack in Columbus about 1925. By 1930 Tom Huston's Pea nut Co. had a big factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia...
...Wearing a pea-green uniform, many medals and a laced hat Jonkheer H. M. van Haersma de With, new Minister from the Netherlands, arrived at the White House, formally presented his credentials, left with a beaming smile...