Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...
...good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from the pin. When he sighted the downhill lie he knew it was a shot that might well be decisive. He sank it to halve the hole, won the 28th and 29th, clinched the match on the 33rd...
...freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose...
Last week James Washburne, dapperly clad in a grey coat and pin-striped trousers, sat thumbing a fistful of stock in a Manhattan office. Proudly he read in black letters on the face of each certificate: ''James M. Washburne Candy Specialty Corp." The company is capitalized at $1,000,000 with James M. Wash-burne as president, Joseph B. Kaufman, treasurer. In the street below the office stood Mr. Washburne's shiny new Cadillac. ''I'm beginning to live all over again," beamed Candymaker Washburne...
Ordinary safety pins may be safe when closed, but they sometimes fly open and penetrate the flesh of infants whose clothing they fasten. Inventors J. H. Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones of Seattle heard of babies who swallowed open safety pins. Accordingly they invented last week what they called a really safe safety pin. It has a reversed spring, so that pressure is necessary to pull the pin open, and the tine when released springs back into its socket...