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...Year's statements of U. S. businessmen, the most optimistic came from Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, whose peanut stand at the corner of the White House grounds was saved through the intervention of his good customer, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Jan. 29). Said Peanut Vendor Vasilakos: "Business very good. Bes' in long time. Almos' better than ever...
...judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut butter and hot chocolate could quickly be provided by the dexterous house wife for a hilarious group of eight Sophomores, all for the price of a "Georgian Special." Net profit, $4.00. A little systematic study and execution of the plan, say a student a day, would have brought...
...objects to fun, but God in Heaven, there is a place and time for it. Will you tell me what is funny about war? What is funny about Bubonic Plague? The CRIMSON'S campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such...
...President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second day the peanut had become a watermelon...
...stores the five Tower Magazines (Love, Mystery, Home, New Movie, Tiny Tower). ¶¶Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder...