Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting-or trying to forget." Would she lose her nerve at the last minute was the big question last week at Owensboro, scene of the hanging...
...scrip he called "prosperity certificates" (TIME, Aug. 10.) They had dated spaces on the reverse side for 104 tiny if stamps which must be bought and attached week-by-week to keep the money "fresh" (i. e., acceptable). Premier Aberhart had produced a "money" that was actually cheaper to spend than to save...
...well. They were used to pay in part relief workers, legislators, Cabinet members, Premier Aberhart. They were accepted by most retail stores. The first day, Alberta merchants gave "hard money" change to purchasers with prosperity certificates. On second thought they made change in credit slips or required buyers to spend a whole certificate. A list of wholesalers who had agreed to accept certificates from retailers was published. Trumpeted Premier Aberhart: "You'll have to get used to using something else than this little thing [waving a real dollar bill] for money...
...place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby at Mayslake. Last week Catholics flocked to the nation's two most famed retreats, at South Bend, Ind. and Malvern...
...child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed. "You're nothing but a backslapping, song-singing, weekly-lunching bunch!" he snorted...