Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel in Switzerland the terrible news that King Albert had been killed by a fall while mountaineering in one of the few rocky districts of low-lying Belgium. Leopold had answered the telephone, put Astrid on at the chamberlain's request, and afterward she broke the news that stark tragedy had made him King...
Engaged. Carolin Babcock, 26, ranking U. S. tennis star; to Richard Salisbury Stark, of Santa Monica, Calif.; in Los Angeles. Tennist Babcock has been on five U. S. Wightman Cup teams, was runner-up in the 1932 U. -S. Women's Championship...
Considering that Governor Lloyd Stark of Missouri is part owner of one of the world's greatest apple orchards, located, of course, in Missouri; considering that Missouri is the nation's foremost producer of apple butter; and considering that all true . . . collectors of apple butter memorabilia genuflect to Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...
Last July when Missouri's new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark was enjoying a vacation in Alaska his State Board of Fund Commissioners sold $3,000,000 worth of State building bonds to Baum, Bernheimer Co., a Kansas City bond house, at an "emergency" private sale. St. Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous...
...strange successes, the Investment Bankers' Association sponsored a bill at the last session of the State Legislature to enforce public offering of all bonds sold in lots of more than $20,000. The bill expired in committee. St. Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market they would be opened to competitive bidding. Lulled by the Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly announced the sale to Baum, Bernheimer...