Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unveiler: Stanley Baldwin who became Prime Minister in 1923, thereby almost breaking the heart of Lord Curzon who thought he should have had that plum, having worked for it all his life. Said honest Mr. Baldwin last week as he unveiled...
...ranks of Canada's Conservative party last week, old guard politicians grumbled at Leader Bennett's bestowal of Canada's sweetest diplomatic plum upon "Bill" Herridge. They recalled that "Bill" has never held public office until now, wondered if Miss Mildred had spoken to her brother...
...Hoover "Lame Duck" Congressman Richard Nash Elliott last week got one of the best jobs in the whole Federal service when he was appointed Assistant Controller General for a 15-year term at $8,000 per year.* After 14 years' House service he was rewarded with this big bright plum chiefly because, as chair man of the Public Buildings Committee, he had scotched the old "pork barrel'' method of Federal construction and inaugurated the Government's present "lump sum" system of public building. To him, too, goes much credit for the extensive housing program to beautify the Federal City...
...prices for their newsprint from C. P. & P. Nevertheless, many a disgruntled member of the Institute felt certain that some concession, involved perhaps in an exchange of stocks, had the effect of C. P. & P. "shading" the Institute's price of $55.20 per ton. The sight of that plum (approx. $26,000,000 prospective annual business) being so plucked made other Institute members feel they had been left suddenly in the cold. They at once began to assert themselves. Col. Price, whose company, a low-price producer, might be in the thick of any price war, declared that Price...
Even that plum tasted slightly tart to Aviation Corp. officials, whose mouths had been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...