Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded long before most Idahoans can remember, Boise's First National of Idaho had grown to be the State's largest bank. As long as all Idahoans can remember, First National has stood as solid as the Continental Divide. Even after Boise City National Bank closed last month, no one eyed First National with suspicion. With no runs, no inklings of imminent trouble, First National's customers one morning last week found posted on the doors a terse note from the U. S. bank examiner stating that the directors had voted to close the institution...
Twelve bright red pens stuck out of twelve black inkpots on a table in the aisle of Canada's House of Commons one morning last week. At the head of the table sat Canada's large, solid Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, flanked by the two other members of the triumvirate which British newspapers have called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern...
...Friends, R. E. Dillon and J. H. Trueman, lived in a little wooden town in Kansas. They played checkers on winter nights, talked in the summer. Dillon? Irish, arrogant, with a musically vibrating voice and a changeable grey eye?was the town's biggest banker. Trueman, solid and more of a sport, was a cattleman. Their friendship was impressive, impervious to differences in their characters. It had become as substantial as a monument before it ended, in a breath of anger over politics, the year Bryan first ran for President...
...have a solid backlog of assurance that there need be no hunger and cold in the United States. . . . The obnoxious features injected by members of the House have been eliminated. The $100,000.000 charity feature has been abandoned. The pork barrel infection has been eliminated...
...Chicago, overheated Karl Marvin tried to cool himself with ice. The trickle down his neck was uncomfortable. He tried it with dry ice (solid CO2), froze both his ears...