Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven tons of Christmas presents for the British evacues. Up in Scotland the heir presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, received a dollar bill from "an American child named Elizabeth" who wanted to help evacues, promptly sent it along by post. Her Royal Highness and Little Sister Princess Margaret Rose Christmas-shopped eagerly in "a sixpenny store somewhere in Scotland...
George Bernard Shaw has a cousin, a retired Australian bank manager named Charles M. Shaw. For years Charles's gorge rose at the silly lies told about "Bernard," while he practically choked at the slanders circulated-often by Bernard himself-about the Shaw clan. The Shaws, after all, he says, can be traced all the way back to 12th-Century Scotland, and it was perfectly outrageous for Bernard to portray them as shabby-genteel failures, and to label his own pa a hopeless and horrible drunk...
Like a band of embattled brothers, up rose the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce because of an alleged slur on Philadelphia's hotels. Casus belli: A Fred Allen radio program in which he and Program Guest Jack Haley reminisced about a little troupers' hotel in Philadelphia. Mused Haley: "My room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with me." Allen: "My room was so small the mice were hump-backed...
...sales rose from $10,229,000 in 1934 to an estimated $20,000,000 this year, its net income from a 1935 deficit of $275,000 to an anticipated 1939 profit of $1,000,000. Still, minority stockholders were not satisfied. Once they set up a fuss at their annual meeting at the firm's Chicopee Falls, Mass, plant over the $12,000 annual fee directors had voted their chairman. Next year the directors retaliated by holding the stockholders' meeting in Delaware. Last week, however, it looked as if the controversy would soon be ended...
...night last week the members of the New York Railroad Club sat down to their 67th annual dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. For topflight railroad executives it was a relatively cheery meal. They were still chortling because freight carloadings rose 30% between Sept. 9 and Oct. 21 -the largest increase over the shortest period in U. S. history. Phrases like "this augurs well" cropped up in more than one of the evening's speeches. But to thoughtful men among them, the carloading boom was an ugly fact to face. For it demonstrated that their huge industry cannot...