Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airport ("New York Municipal Airport" officially) was as handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...
Died. Tolbert Hatfield, 89, justice of the peace, one of the clansmen who survived the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud; in bed, of pneumonia; in Ransom...
Immediately, indefatigable Henry Wallace called a conference. All through the South, the sheepish growers wondered what their ransom was going to be. North Carolina's big, handsome Commissioner of Agriculture William Kerr Scott suggested sadistically that the markets be reopened, the farmers left to squirm. Henry Wallace announced in an AAA pamphlet: ". . . It would not be sound to undertake price-supporting measures for the 1939 crop unless farmers indicate a desire to regulate marketings for the 1940 crop." Warehousemen held meetings, shouted for crop control, promised to use their influence on the farmers...
...latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
...Beta Kappa Poet will be John Crowe Ransom, Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College, Ohio and author of several books of verse...