Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have," said Carter Glass, "but I'm the only one in the room who has." For his quip Senator Glass got a pen that made...
...this Point, the Parsimonious Freshman threw away his pencil and paper, seized his fountain Pen and check book, and at once made out his subscription for the following year...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...
...White House with pen in hand Franklin Roosevelt waited, eager to sign...
Depression was hard on the fountain pen business. Sheaffer had a $676,000 deficit in 1933. Common dividends stopped. Business improved the following year and for the fiscal year ending Feb. 28, 1935 the company announced a net profit of $442,000. Last week Sheaffer Pen celebrated Walter Sheaffer's 68th birthday by moving up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange, listing 162,355 shares of common stock on which the dividend ($1) was resumed last March. Said portly, affable President Sheaffer: "Business is satisfactory, very satisfactory...