Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Wilson (Cards) has a good job in a silk mill in Philadelphia. Bob Shawkey (manager, Yanks) and Herb Pennock (Yanks) would rather go after moose than anything else. Goose Goslin (Senators) farms 500 acres in New Jersey. In North Carolina Jakie May (Reds) hunts possums and coons with 20 hound dogs. Waite Hoyt (Yanks) and Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during...
...Wilste, Holstein, Henry Moeller, 15, decided to go to sea, sailed on a clipper ship for Hongkong. His aunt said goodbye to him and presented Henry Moeller with an umbrella of purple silk with a carved snakewood handle. "It will be handy in case it rains," she said...
...last week's exchange closing. Within the past two years the value of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has fallen 30%. The removal of the embargo on gold shipments out of Japan has seriously depleted the country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi. A Tokyo correspondent quoted the opinion of several cabinet members that...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...