Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professor of business administration at Columbia since 1916. Like his venerable predecessor, he is a tax-expert, an adviser to governments and states. The Federal Government, Canada, Porto Rico, New Mexico, have sought his aid. New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Dr. Haig chairman of his pet project, the St. Lawrence Power Development Commission, made him executive secretary and research director of the New York State Commission for the Revision of Tax Laws...
Products), Pet Milk and Borden's have scattered plants throughout Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee. Since 1927, dairy stock in the South has upped from 5,370,000 head to 5,761,000. In St. Louis, livestock centre and a Southern gateway, a permanent dairy exhibit was recently established in the four-year-old Arena, a giant red-&-yellow mushroom located just over the southern boundary of Forest Park. But few Southern-bred cattle won any of the big prizes offered at the 25th annual National Dairy Show held at the Arena last week...
...atmosphere of the show was gala, if varied. There were circus acts, pet stock judging, live stock judging, vaudeville, dramatic presentations by local Thespians. One booth was occupied by ladies of the W. C. T. U., another by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
...fraud. The laundrymen claimed the bankers had represented the bridge company as owning a franchise which protected it from competition for 20 years. Actually when the bonds were being sold the Louisiana State Legislature had already passed bills providing for two free bridges a few miles away. These were pet projects of mercurial Huey Pierce Long, Governor of Louisiana and Senator-elect, who also fostered the public ferries which have added to the bridge company's troubles...
...Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday party. Penrod's dog dies and is buried near the clubhouse...