Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When cherubic Winston Churchill, who feels keenly that he received no bid to enter the Chamberlain Cabinet and is making the Prime Minister pay dear for this slight, arose with his innocent air, the House of Commons was ripe for the deft amendment he proposed. This was that the House, instead of approving the Government's proposal to partition Palestine and submitting this act of the Mother of Parliaments to the "yes" or "no" decision of the League of Nations, should simply send the Government proposals to Geneva. Thus, if the League says...
...same six months of 1936. C, National Biscuit Co., which has been feeling the pinch of cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over...
...forged to the front in Fund affairs in 1930, when he fought a revival of the Wanamaker movement, won a court battle for a place on the board of directors. No crabbed theologian. Dr. Mackie thinks his troubles in handling preachers' insurance are virtually nonexistent. Overhead is slight because...
...strength, Bull Moore was marvelous. He could fight three men at a time, toss a waiter across the bar of a lunch counter, lift the front wheels of an automobile with one hand. With a slight edge on his appetite, he would break a dozen eggs into his mother's frying pan and eat them in six mouthfuls...