Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculator," wrote Arthur William Cutten in the Satevepost few years ago. "I like to make money. There is a thrill in the actual process unequaled by any emotion a man of my years is apt to experience." Last week spare, tight-lipped Speculator Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration...
...investment." Another wanted free passes. A third, who refused to give her name, brought forth rousing applause when she cried: "What reason can you give for not paying dividends. . . . I suggest that the officers go without their salaries for two years. They can spare their fabulous salaries, while we stockholders, who put all we had into the railroad, have to be impoverished. I want to know why? Why?" Politely the presiding officer, Director Effingham Buckley Morris, replied that so far as he knew the directors had voted all the dividends there were. A vice president pointed out that dividends...
...were counted, Kansas Citizens knew the worst: The Fusion attempt to break the rule of Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast's Democratic machine had failed. Re-elected by a 59,566 plurality was Boss-backed Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author of The Epistemological Function of the "Thing in Itself" in Kant's Philosophy...
...TIME must dignify Mark Edward Ridge as "intrepid," dignify his story by two columns of copy, let it at least spare Science, and list such items under Miscellany. I will bet a TIME subscription for Mark Edward Ridge on Hank Schafer (TIME, March 19, p. 66) to complete successfully and without injury "black-browed young daredevil" Ridge's bungled show...
...Herendenes, city folks with summer places near Hoxsie's, were frantic at the idea of letting in a cheap development, tried to get their friends together and raise money to buy the Hoxsie place themselves. Perry, Herendene's best friend and neighbor, had the money to spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming...