Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...brought out the fact that Adman Bates had contracted to buy Jim Thomas' unwritten memoirs for $100,000 and had just given him a $76,000 house as part payment. For three days immediately after the Cabinet Ministers were told the contents of Neville Chamberlain's red leather Budget box, Alfred Bates and Jim Thomas played golf together. On the stand last week Jim Thomas' hearty voice became the humblest murmur...
Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...
Both teams have gone down to defeat at Army hands, and the Yale quartet fared badly with Princeton into the bargain, so if numbers have any prognosticator value, Captain Ed Gerry's Red Riders should have the edge...
Bees 3Reds 2 Cubs 4 Dodgers 0 Cards 4 Giants 2 Pirates 7 Phillies 4 Red Sox 6 Browns 2 Tigers 10 Yankees 9 Washington 7 Indians 4 White Sox 3 Athletics...