Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applying the "hot foot" with his cigar-he is igniting it! As the recipient of many a "hot foot" in all parts of the country, I can give you an expert's description of how it is applied: A book-match is stuck between the upper and sole of the shoe. It is usually placed in the instep on outer side of the shoe. Naturally, the sulphur end extends...
...presidents who firmly opposed their Committee for Industrial Organization. Almost overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give it a New Deal flavor, they invited in as president George L. Berry, custodian of the Blue Eagle's bones. That the sole objective of the Non-Partisan League was to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt should, Messrs. Lewis, Hillman & Berry declared, "be sufficiently clear to anyone...
...months of the year Churchill is icebound, snow-laden. Sole reason for making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction...
...Ohio, to provide a $100 cream-&-gold uniform for Stanwurt. Father von Schilling got engagements for Stanwurt and himself at Norfolk clubs, at the local Navy Yard Y. M. C. A., and at nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling announced that his sole job from now on was to be his son's manager. Turning up at a music store in Utica, N. Y., where the von Schillings' act was supposed to boost sales, he declared that he and Sousaphonist Stanwurt were bound for Cleveland, hoped for engagements at the Great...
...Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that...