Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest: Robert Marion La Follette, the first Senator of the new Progressive Party of Wisconsin (see p. 12). Had the election gone otherwise, they might have had time to mention a conventional political subject. National Cheese Week (Wisconsin produces 65 % of U. S. cheese). Cheese Week was the pet project of Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Schmedeman whose political doom had been sealed by the Progressive Party&# 134;and the two gentlemen lunching at the White House were each thinking in terms of the future and the political mandate which they had received...
...crisis in such splendid condition as to reflect great credit upon his ability as a bank executive"; 2) president of a big construction company which got fat contracts at Boulder Dam and owns a 300,000-acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products Co.; 5) vice president & treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar, a big Mormon beet-sugar enterprise; 6) president of Stoddard Lumber Co. which cuts 30,000,000 ft. of timber annually, in eastern Oregon; 7) director of a chain of lumber yards; 8) director...
...fence, and they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang Pa Goodhue lost its nerve, but that night somebody shot him in the dark. His murderer almost got away to the war scot-free; just in time Clay...
...First National Bank of Muskogee, Okla. For 18 years (1907-25) he sat in the U. S. Senate where his crowning glory was helping to put through Representative Glass's Federal Reserve Act. Last week Mr. Owen went to the White House to press on the President his pet plan: to restore prosperity, let a Government bank buy $10,000,000,000 of Government bonds from the public and put a lot of money into circulation. Attentively the President and his monetary advisers listened, politely showed the old gentleman out. Then the Press was given to understand in no uncertain...
...story of "Marie Galante" is an adventurous one. An orphan, Marie is the pet of the town which supports her by allowing her to deliver telegrams to congenial owners of little shops and cafes. Her innocent beauty strikes the eye of a sinister ship captain, who shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting...