Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa of one of his followers, Lady Vittal Das Thackersey...
...Mahatma issued that same night a potent announcement: for at least a month the civil disobedience campaign and the boycott of British goods should cease. He hoped that the Government would release all civil-disobedience prisoners. Then Gandhi concentrated on his fast, slept, spun, talked, took water, salt and soda...
...from the Stahlhelm itself. It was a move of vast import. Think of the American Legion in politics openly instead of covertly; think of it still drilling as a secret reserve of the U. S. Army. Such a body is the Stahlhelm. Founded by Franz Seldte, a retired soda-water manufacturer, the Stahlhelm's policies have always been a much diluted version of Naziism. Among its leaders only Jew-tainted Col. Düsterberg has held out persistently for a separate organization. Day after Col. Düsterberg's dismissal. Founder Seldte stepped up to a German micro...
...Talburt of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws editorials and is called a cartoonist." The 1932 Pulitzer Prize for books on U. S. themes...
...production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter, 11, invent things like bedside bookracks...