Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often, stiff collars to match. His feet are small and well-shod. Beneath his habitual derby hat his hair is turning thin and grey. Society is his prime diversion. Of secondary interest are motoring, sporting events, the theatre. In Washington he occupies an expensive suite of rooms at the luxurious Carlton Hotel on 16th Street. A good and frequent host himself, he accepts all invitations out, is one of the most lionized Senators in Washington. Ironic comments...
...birds were graded. This year 500,000 were expected to pass governmental scrutiny. Shrewd bird-buying housewives looked for a paper bracelet around their turkey's leg, placed there by the U. S. graders as a certificate of quality. Best young turkeys were labelled "U. S. Prime," next best "U. S. Choice." Older birds were marked "U. S. Prime Mature," and "U. S. Choice Mature...
...will be J. P. Morgan & Co. Thus without putting up a cent the Federal Reserve?traditionally in closest touch with the House of Morgan ?will have a major "phantom stake" in the Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, prefers like President Hoover to keep-the-government-out-of-business. Japan's "Messrs. X" will be a consortium of 14 banks, led by the Bank of Japan, the Mitsui Bank and the Yokohama Specie Bank...
...guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent League of Nations partisan, went on teaching Greek at Oxford. The new Ambassador-designate, who will go to Washington early next year...
...Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open...