Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes live comfortably on a ten-acre place at Winnetka where the new Secretary of Interior putters among his dahlias, drives a Packard, collects stamps. For this week's inaugural he is buying and wearing his first high silk hat in 30 years...
Senator Borah would have thundered out those startling words in the Senate chamber last week if he had followed verbatim the advice he received in a letter from M. C. Migel, Providence, R. I. silk manufacturer. But no such utterance passed the lips of the ursine Idahoan. Instead, he replied to Mr. Migel's suggestion by mail as follows...
...coward, a traitor, and a thief." Purple veins stood out large on Napoleon's bull-neck as he concluded his tirade. "You have never worthily performed a single duty. You have betrayed and deceived everybody. You would sell your own father. You are a mess of dung in a silk stocking." The Emperor stopped, red-faced; he was out of breath. For half an hour Talleyrand had leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity...
...simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running...
...metal trades have proved intractable. Creatures whom Il Duce considers "socalled business men" have exceeded metal quotas approved by the State in speculative efforts to cut each other's throats. The silk trade, on the other hand, reached a pass of despair last year in which honest worm raisers began to burn their mulberry trees. The State stopped that with a bounty of one lira per kilogram of cocoons, but the silk, metal and several other trades must be thoroughly overhauled. Such jobs take money. Hence last week the $50,000,000 loan...