Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overton, Neb. any outsider who dared to bid at the foreclosure sale on Mike Thinnes' farm was threatened with a ducking in the horse trough at the hands of 200 farmer friends. Mrs. Thinnes bought in cows for 10? horses for 2?, tractors for 50?-at total cost...
...confirmation of this, a survey of present methods of enforcement reveals that in all Federal Courts, and in two-thirds of the State Courts a person cannot be convicted of violation of the Volstead Act unless there is presented actual evidence of purchase; and not mere observation of sale. To secure such evidence, Federal Agents have resorted to almost the only expedient--buying the liquor themselves. By prohibiting this, the House has made convictions difficult, if not impossible. The restrictions against wire-tapping and spying, measures which have proved necessary in the program of enforcement, will similarly cut down...
...Received from the Judiciary Committee a bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of 3.05% beer & wine...
Last week William Steele Gray Jr. was elected president of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. ("No Securities for Sale"). Tall, dark, handsome, he was born to wealth, served in the Navy during the War, graduated from Princeton in 1919. He promptly entered his father's chemical supply house as a salesman. In a few years he was made president (and still is). Unlike Treasurer James F. Behan of A. T. & T. who spent 30 long years plodding up through the ledgers (see above), William Steele Gray Jr. entered banking only eight years ago, and then...
British female flyers kept searching parties busy last week. Misses Joan Page and Audrey Sale-Barker, making a leisurely flight from Cape Town to England, lost themselves in low clouds over Nairobi. A stiff wind blew them off-course, crashed their plane into a boulder-studded ridge. For two days planes from Nairobi scoured the wild Kenya country, finally spotted the wreck. Meanwhile Miss Sale-Barker, searching for water, had encountered a Masai headsman, sent him to Nairobi with a note written with lipstick. Rescuers took out Miss Sale-Barker by automobile, Miss Page, whose leg was broken, by plane...