Word: spa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago in the hills near French Lick, he made his way alone, accumulated a fortune in the hotel business and in American Circus Corp. At West Baden, a mile from French Lick where the late Thomas ("Tom") Taggart, Indiana's longtime Democratic boss, operated a famed spa (Pluto Water), Mr. Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard made ready to sell out and retire. In casting about for a buyer two years ago, he met Rev. Hugo...
...express appreciation for the honor of being singled out on your pages with my picture in connection with the reference to my as sociation with the development of the Spa at Saratoga Springs...
...association, as a Commissioner of the State of New York, with the development of the Saratoga Spa. I cite your statement: "He [Peabody] formed a private corporation, Saratoga Waters Corp., leased at nominal fee the right to bottle the waters. . . . The State purchased the Peabody lease for more than $350,000." There is absolutely not a word of truth in this nor any basis to be found in any way for the scandalous attack upon my character which this statement makes...
...which his chief, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, was too smart to let any Russian make until he personally had negotiated an imposing series of non-aggression pacts in the lobbies of the Conference (TIME, July 17). Last week Comrade Litvinov was sipping the waters of a famed spa, when Comrade Maisky rose to shout: "The results of this Conference are something less than zero! . . . The only lesson we have learned is that a profound organic disease is eating away at the very vitals of world capitalism. ... He who does not realize this, or who attempts to deny...
...traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated by becoming a bathing spa...