Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the demand for tickets to the Tufts game next Saturday will be far less heavy than for the Holy Cross game today, the authorities at the H. A. A. do not except a slack week. Five entire sections have already been reserved by the Tufts management, and arrangements are now being made to engage two more. A large public sale is also expected. Applications from Harvard men will be received until 6 o'clock on Monday, and tickets will be on open sale during the rest of the week...
...Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
Some weeks past the country was astonished to learn that a bid of $1,051,000,000 had been made for the whole U. S. Government Merchant Marine. It was at first suspected that the bidder, John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N. Y., was acting for Henry Ford. The bid was obviously fictitious and was not seriously considered in Washington. Mr. Slack's name, however, as well as the name of his native town of Silver Creek, N. Y., received instant and widespread publicity...
Last week Mr. Slack, in an article in The New York Times, while still somewhat artificially protesting his sincerity, reveals his purpose, in which he was to a degree successful, of getting three million dollars' worth of publicity for nothing. Mr. Slack claims his action was a "rebuke" to the Government-just how is not clear. The whole affair must be classed with the enormous but fictitious check recently sent to Mayor Hylan to pay the expenses of the Civic Jubilee. Meanwhile Slack, event if he has not made himself famous, has at least gained a temporary but universal...
Wall Street is betting 5 to 2 on Dempsey over Gibbons, with interest slack and little money in sight...