Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roar of laughter which followed, Senator Ashurst literally rose to the occasion. Grasping the lapels of his cutaway- in the pockets of which he carries, for souvenir hunters, reprints of the address he made renouncing his opposition to increasing the Supreme Court (TIME, March 1)-he made a deep bow and replied...
Three weeks ago, it became known last week, the Pope gave audience to Aurelio Mistruzzi, Papal engraver and sculptor who fashioned the Golden Rose to be given this week to Italy's Queen Elena (TIME, March 15). According to Signer Mistruzzi, the hale Holy Father pointed to papers on his desk and said: "We have written a long letter which is most important and we are writing another which is equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well...
...socialite great-grandson gave an art exhibition at Manhattan's Paul Reinhardt Galleries. Assisting him were the equally social Charles G. Shaw, Susie Frelinghuysen and her husband George L. K. Morris, who attracted a modicum of attention last summer by inserting the name of their snub-nosed Pekingese, Rose, in the New York Social Register. Artists Gallatin, Shaw, Frelinghuysen & Morris hung up some 20 canvases on which numerous arrangements of angular and circular planes had been soberly defined and painted, in some cases pasted and cut from odd bits of paper and cloth-all very meticulously worked...
When Mr. Douglas was introduced at the Bond Club lunch last week the members to a man rose to give the personable young commissioner a resounding welcome. When he finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the speech left its hearers "grumpy." No public rebuttal developed, the bankers retiring in groups to their offices to sputter such redundant epithets as "inconsistent meddler," "impractical reformer," "theoretical logician...
Sears' sales in 1936 rose to $495,000,000, a 26% increase over the previous year. †Ward's1936 sales were $361,300,000, up 23%. Net profits reported by Sears were $30,660,000, a 43% increase over $21,519,000 reported in 1935. On a percentage basis Ward did even better, lifting its profits 49% from $13,527,000 to $20,199,000. Both companies paid out within an ace of their total earnings in dividends to avoid the undistributed profits tax and both did financing during the fiscal year to obtain new capital...