Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass...
...Minister to Hungary, at the railway station in Budapest, were astonished to see him descend from the train clad only in pajamas. He explained that his trousers had been stolen overnight; he had no others with him. The trousers were found later in a cornfield. The Minister's pocketbook was not in them...
...deficit. Perhaps it was just as well that Secretary Mellon, who had piled up ten annual surpluses in a row, .was away in Paris when the Treasury had to make its dismal accounting to the country. A depression far beyond his darkest estimates had hit the Government's pocketbook and now to his chief assistant fell the unpleasant task of making explanations...
...Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. reported it was on a five-day basis, employing as many workers as possible. C. H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (automobiles) closed for two weeks. C. A strike of 2,700 members of International Pocketbook Workers' Union resulted when employers tried to cut wages...
...asked to contribute to help is more than some will be able to understand. The average graduate cannot be expected to know that a university cannot be perfect. On the contrary his reaction to such words is to question the necessity of this additional drain on his pocketbook. In the vast amount of building at Harvard he sees a great affluence and not a draining of the University's coffers. Such a circular as this merely increases this idea of affluence in the mind of the layman and makes him reluctant to help in the progress towards a perfection that...