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...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...
Maurice Sterne, art theorist and Brooklyn expatriate (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933) who won the $100 Thomas B. Clarke prize for the best U. S. figure composition painted in the U. S. or its territorial possessions, with his Plum Girl...
...English plum pudding with hard or brandy sauce was next provided, and after it followed maraschino jelly, charlotte russe, French kisses, assorted cake, macaroons, Neapolitan ice cream, fruits, assorted nuts, raisins. Roquefort and Neufchatel cheese, and finally coffee...
Orrick Johns, who is the author of two books, "Asphalt," and "The Wild Plum," is an active member and representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners...