Word: sheafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced a sheaf of letters written by Lord Revelstoke when he was a Cambridge undergraduate and which last week made him blush painfully in court...
...Ohio Relief Administration. The frank purpose of this shakedown, because it can be termed fairly by no other name, was to help pay off the deficit of your campaign and the expenses of your inaugural." Specifically, the evidence which had come to Mr. Hopkins' attention was a sheaf of affidavits, which he had sent his own investigators out to get, alleging the corrupt collection of $8,000. Republican Legislators at once howled for Davey's impeachment...
Already a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Officer of the Order of the Golden Sheaf of China, Chairman Fahey holds down the uneasy title of world's biggest mortgagee with notable efficiency. HOLC has dismissed 236 lawyers for incompetence. Chairman Fahey's ideal of a business interview is reported to be 4½ min. for business, 30 sec. for greetings and farewells. People lucky enough to get inside his crowded office in the Post Office Building find a distinguished old gentleman with a snowy Vandyke beard, twinkling eyes...
Last week's sheaf of statistics showed that in 1934 by superhuman efforts the loading rate was screwed up to 53,000 cars per day for a time, then relapsed to 48,000. Among Soviet railway men slated for shooting last week were six survivors of one of the worst major collisions in years on the Moscow-Leningrad run, crack line of the entire Soviet Union. To clear the wreckage last year took 13 hours. Few details passed the censor, except that the wreck was a rear-end collision, the dead, 23. With the thermometer at -25°, corpses...
...Were startled by a sheaf of recommendations from the Law Revision Committee, such as that a British husband should no longer be held responsible for his wife's naked torts.* The London Times approved the report as "simple, logical and in accord with the equalitarian spirit...