Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisons last week President Roosevelt swept by a pen-stroke 64 drug-peddlers, 50 counterfeiters, 37 assorted thieves, murderers, white-slavers, violators of postal, immigration, bankruptcy and motor theft laws. At 95? each per day, it was costing the U. S. $52,000 per year to support them in jail. Signing the largest deportation order in U. S. history, the President consigned the 151 criminals, aliens all, to exercise their talents in their native lands...
...portraitists of the primitive mind-Frazer, Sumner & Keller, Malinowski, Boas. One of these was Lucien Levy-Bruhl, longtime professor of the University of Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...
...Sheaffer Pen Co. boasts the largest dollar sales of any pen manufacturer in the U. S. When it was founded in a Fort Madison, Iowa jeweler's shop in 1913, most fountain pens clogged, scratched, leaked or had to be filled with a medicine dropper. Jeweler Walter A. Sheaffer patented one of the first important improvements-a lever bar filling device. With a capital of $35,000 he started manufacturing Sheaffer pens in the back room of his jewelry shop...
Soon money began to pour into Walter Sheaffer's ink-stained hands. His crowning achievement was an $8.75 Lifetime pen, introduced in 1921. It was the first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales...
...presented a memorial stating that the signers were unalterably opposed to any semblance of interference in Mexico but urging the President to undertake "the moral vindication of an ethical principle." Reaching out a large hand, Franklin Roosevelt drew a pad of paper toward him, flicked out his fountain pen and, like a true statesman, straightway declared himself. A few minutes later his "moral vindication of an ethical principle" was in the hands of the Press: "The President stated that he is in entire sympathy with all people who make it clear that the American people and the Government believe...