Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister MacDonald, a life-long free trader, knows that Chancellor Chamberlain will buckle a tariff belt of some sort around Mother Britain, cannot stop this unwelcome belting...
Whenever Englishmen have spent a dull evening at the theatre or have sat down to a plum pudding only to find it has too much baking soda, they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...appointed to that position in a personal capacity," said Mr. Henderson. He vowed he will not surrender the plum, added enticingly, "It rests with your electors of Burnley whether I shall preside as your representative...
...public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship in prospect for this winter. . . . The psychology of fear should labelled. be . . ." exiled and a national sign hung out As he neared the end of the quotation, Chair man Horner paused dramatically, the delegates waited for the plum. He raised his voice to a shout as he voiced a platitudinous slogan, be loved of all civic clubbers, and from over the room came a shower of cards bearing the same admonition: "KEEP SMILING." Keep smiling the delegates did through ever-accumulating evidence that even the service club industry must needs...
...Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a, baseball, the first freestone, blood-fleshed plum ever developed. Trees to bear this luscious giant planted two years ago (from Wisconsin to Alabama, California to New York) have lived and borne this year despite dry summer and hard winter...