Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chauffeur. Usually their route is direct. But this, said the New Yorker, is the season of the year when Mr. Morgan & chauffeur make a detour, slow down almost to a stop as they pass through Sea Cliff so they can see a Mr. Young's superb blossoming plum tree...
Andrew Mellon last week dangled a huge sugar plum before the U. S. people as represented by the Board of Tax Appeals which for three months has been hearing the U. S. Government's claim that Mellon owes $3,089,000 on his 1931 income tax. In 1931, Mellon set up "an educational and charitable trust" to which year by year he hands over a number of his valuable old masters...
...collections of old masters, to the U. S. The Government's case is that he has by no means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John J. Elaine of Wisconsin, was to him not a plum but a plume...
...reward to Mr. Stephens was a juicy plum, for party regularity. For 22 years Mr. Stephens served the Democratic Party in Congress, twelve of them in the Senate where he succeeded the greatest of Mississippi's statesmen, the late John Sharp Williams. No one ever accused Mr. Stephens of being a counterpart of Williams, but he was well liked by his colleagues. Last year he ran into hard luck...