Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore, a case of conscience which led Mrs. Roosevelt to agree to begin on Feb. 15 a ten-week series of broadcasts for the Selby Shoe Co. (Styl-Eez, Tru-Poise and Arch-Preserver shoes), her earnings to go to Reedsville...
There are things that might be more easily taxed than burials. Why not begin with a 500% tax on Mr. Foss's necktie and a 1,000% tax on the shoe polish he consumes and 2,500% tax on the value of the church he attends...
...citizens listed last month by the Senate Munitions Committee as having an annual income of $1,000,000 or more during the War was George Francis Johnson of Endicott, N. Y. A sandy-haired man of 77, George F. Johnson is chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second biggest shoe manufacturer in the U. S. Once an $18-a-week worker in the factory he now owns, President Johnson is conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and friendly labor policy. Every time a baby leaves one of the three company-owned maternity hospitals, it carries tucked away in its blankets...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...
...Hauptmann did not know the money he was passing was ransom money. He "dipped into it" when he found a shoe box full of it left by Isidor Fisch, who owed Hauptmann $7,500 which he never repaid...