Word: slough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...Laying aside its aloofness, Phi Beta Kappa aligns itself with those who are seeking to lead the world out of its slough of despond. For the first time in 150 years this erudite?some even call it snobbish? society of college and university intellectuals faces the world with a declaration...
...from the sea 100 mi. to Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette Rivers, swam a small killer whale last autumn. There he was stranded. The press & populace of Portland, Ore. made much of him, christened him Ethelbert (TIME, Nov. 9). While the populace gaped and riflemen took pot shots, Ethelbert was discussed & debated by the Oregon Humane Society, which finally decided he would never get back to sea and therefore should be painlessly executed with dynamite. Before that could be done, one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert...
...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...
...operation before he told the country his plan. When he secured this shortly after midnight Tuesday, the National Credit Corp. had assumed definite form and the public was appraised of a 500-million-dollar fund (later enlarged to a billion) to function as a stepping stone between the slough of the ordinary bank and the lofty security of the Federal Reserve. National Credit Corp. was quickly formed under the laws of Delaware with a capital structure of twelve shares of $100 par value stock. Twelve men were to direct it, one from each of the Federal Reserve Districts. Each would...