Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...
...opinion of His Majesty's Government, once Congress politicians take office they will end by trying to make the Constitution work, rather than by continuing efforts which would wreck the Constitution and cost them their lucrative jobs under it-this bait having thoughtfully been provided by far-seeing Sir Samuel Hoare, today Home Secretary and runner-up for the Prime Ministry...
...Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvin Douglas); Slim (Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay); A Day at the Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson...
...their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...
...extortion, all jute is drawn by bullocks or floated down India's muddy rivers to the colonial city of Calcutta. There it is either bought by British manufacturers or made up for export by pukka ("reliable") balers. Most famed British name in the jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest...