Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ahead of stabilization of currencies, President Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...Third. At official ceremonies do not wear a silk hat and do wear the simple black shirt of the revolution...
Brokers in linen jackets milled curiously around the four brand new rings of the Commodity Exchange-rubber, silk, hides, metals (copper, silver and tin). They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...
...persons from witnessing the secret practices of the varsity football team. Mike had a failed banner given to him in 1908 by Percy Haughton. Waving this flag before him he lead the snake dances and football rallies in the old days. At other times he would don a tail silk hat, and with the same banner attend the important weddings where Harvard athletes were concerned...
...most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped...