Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford, General Counsel Robert H. Jackson of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an engaging young man who believes that the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor, began a lively poker game before the Committee with Henry Ford's fortune for imaginary blue chips. At stake was the important question of what would become of Ford Motor Co. when Father Henry dies and Son Edsel has to pay record-breaking death taxes...
...called Society people," blazed the aggressively plebeian Party Secretary, "instead of going in for sport, persist in holding conversations in their drawing rooms, generally in a foreign tongue.* They engage nurse maids, personal maids and governesses of all nationalities except Italian. They play poker and bridge with the accompanying drinks, certainly not Italian brands...
...Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally through the grain and cotton belts. (Cotton estimating is one of her specialties.) Last year she covered 40.000 miles. At 34 she is a divorcee, fond of dancing and poker, mother of a two-year...
...Senior Cowles plays bridge at the Des Moines Club every day after lunch. He hates poker, likes popcorn, has his wife read to him in the evenings while he plays solitaire...
...military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, his revelation that he has secretly built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian...