Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached Brussels last week on his first visit to Europe in nearly 20 years. Every Belgian paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
...alighted from her limousine at Buckingham Palace. The most famed of 187 persons who had come to receive from the hand of George VI the stars, orders and ribbons awarded in the New Year's Honors (TIME, Jan. 10), she curtsied demurely while the King-Emperor pinned the rose-colored ribbon and the badge of a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...Roosevelt. Hudson Motor Car Co. is supposed to have got a substantial reduction for steel for its new low-priced" car. General Motors is said to have ordered 5,000 tons from Republic Steel as soon as the low price could be made effective. Steel production for the week rose only from 30%' to 31% of capacity, but Cleveland's statistical Colonel Leonard P. Ayres declared: "These developments terminate what was a kind of deadlock in business. From now on we are going to have a flexible instead of an inflexible price scale and apparently we shall also...
...During the second half of 1937 U. S. commodity prices (1 remained stable, 2 continued their inflationary rise, 3 fell sharply from the spring peak, 4 rose on farm products but declined on metals, 5 were forced down by the Government...