Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...
...plan: to clear up, the $9 a share accrued on 287,225 preferred shares, exchange of each old 6%, $100-par preferred share for ½ share of new preferred and 2¾ common. The plum if the deal goes through: payment of a 30? dividend, first since 1931, on the common...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
Miss Mollie went to the White House to tea, dressed in a new plum-colored dress. She was so overwhelmed by meeting Mrs. Roosevelt that she could not remember what the First Lady had said to her, besides, "Why, I read about you in the paper this morning. . . ." Miss Moilie had other little adventures...
...William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant on the Illinois Commerce Commission: dapper, long-faced Herman Emmons...