Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Tennessee's Senator Hull, Alexander Mitchell Palmer, onetime (1919-21) Attorney General of the U. S., drafted in committee most of the Democratic platform adopted by the Chicago convention. TIME, July 11, quoted its most specific planks including a 25% economy pledge, data on the sale of stocks and bonds, no War Debt cancellation and Philippine independence. The platform's "vagueness" is illustrated by the following important planks...
Sirs: In TIME, July 18, photograph of a man in overalls is shown with his hands chained aloft being flogged for theft and sale of ice box upon which he realized the sum of Three ($3) Dollars. Question:-Have any photographs ever been taken of men in frock coats being flogged for scuttling millions from banks, building & loan societies, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera? LEE K. STROBEL Los Angeles, Calif. TIME has never seen any photographs of frock-coated floggees, will most certainly print, as of maximum news value, the first such photograph available...
...Congress is not the only Government agency that fritters its printing appropriations. Published within the last two months by G. P. O. for executive departments for public sale: Capons & Caponizing (5¢); "I'm Alone" (10¢); The Commercial Forcing of Lilies-of-the-Valley (10¢); The Disinfection of Stables (5¢); American and European Swords (357#162;); Poultry Keeping in Back Yards (10¢); Specifications for Nail Pullers (5¢); Outlook for the Mackerel Fishery (10¢); Philippine Land Mollusks...
...more important that the New York Central Railroad should meet the interest on its bonds than it is to prevent the forced sale of 500,000 farms and homes...
...British answer to all such proposals was long ago enshrined in that ringing Imperial formula: "The King's subjects are not for sale...