Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a prestidigitator, Mr. Bennett produced a blue bag from his coat tails. Out of the bag came a big silver plate. Mr. Bennett handed it to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin took out a red silk hankerchief. polished the plate carefully, slowly. A boy came in breathless with another blue bag containing another big silver plate. This plate Mr. Baldwin presented to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Baldwin then made a speech praising the weather. Mr. Havenga made a speech pointing out that nobody was under the illusion that he was going home with everything he wanted. Mr. Chatterjee made a speech...
...Brothers Van Sweringen propose a major consolidation of their Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette...
Chesapeake & Ohio, with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate (Buffalo-Chicago-St. Louis), Erie (Jersey City-Chicago-Cincinnati) and Pere Marquette (Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago) gets 24½% of the total trackage. Instead of Lackawanna, as proposed originally by the I. C. C., it is given Lehigh Valley (New York-Buffalo) which puts its system into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. It also gets a branch of the Lackawanna to Oswego. Other C. & O. roads: Bessemer & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...Second Congregational Church at Beloit, Wis. three Sundays ago went Edward Robert Branigan, City Councilman. Into the collection plate he dropped $1. As soon as the sermon was over he demanded it back. Preacher Herbert Arthur Studebaker had preached as follows...
...clear that there is another beer hall a little farther on. Almost exclusively from beer halls, famed restaurants and night clubs, does he survey the contemporary Central European scene. A characteristic vista: "I had dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy. I was alone, but at least three charming feminine creatures occupied the continuous lounge across the narrow room, and I watched them with discreet enjoyment and satisfaction. I was, it seemed, at last actually growing...