Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe's outstanding example of mass production in industry, the great Bat'a Shoe Co. of Zlin, braced itself last week against a dire economic threat. Recent German press stories have declared: "The Bat'a family are Czech Jews." If this charge can be made to stick, Bat'a chain shoe stores in Vienna and other parts of Greater Germany face confiscation. Even if not made to stick it may seriously injure their business. Actually, most of the Bat'a family are tall, big-boned, straight-nosed, bristle-haired blonds...
Died. Daniel George Dodge, 21, heir to the $9,000,000 fortune of the late Automobileman John Dodge, in Georgian Bay, near Little Current, Ontario. Honeymooning with his two-weeks' bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned...
...played for suckers." But Joe Curran, more of a democrat than an autocrat, believes that if a majority of his seamen want to be suckers, then suckers they should be without let or hindrance from the top. Whether he and N. M. U. can make this theory stick against such laddiebucks as Fireman King & friends remains to be seen...
...eight-column head: NAGIRROC YAW GNORW OT LIAH. The Journal and American (Hearst) ran a banner head, WELCOME TO YOU O'CORRIGAN in Gaelic, later got a better idea, printed it in green. The Sun, which had previously used Corrigan's unorthodox navigation as a stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven't Guessed, Read This Backwards...
...building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised a man's absence...