Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough this astoundingly incautious orator was not a "Red." He is simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably...
Chrysler-Dodge. In a dull market, common stock of the Chrysler Corp. and preference stock of Dodge Bros., Inc. assumed leadership, soared 10 points in a single session to new high levels for all time. Wall Street debated: Could the Chrysler-Dodge combine threaten General Motors supremacy? Commenting on results of the merger, E. F. Hutton & Co. noted: "Chrysler obtains a second dealer organization of 6,000. It thus becomes the only automobile company in a position to compete with General Motors in the latter's highly successful plan of a separate dealer organization for cars selling in different...
...Childs had offered patrons of his 120 restaurants every conceivable substitute for meat. He had invoked the experience of the heroic Greeks, meat-haters. Statistics of calories and vitamins filled his menus. But gross sales for five months of 1928 showed a falling off of 9%, while the common stock sagged from a high 74 in 1925 to a 1928 low of 38. And last week he yielded, but without grace. Inept, as a bid for popularity, were the advertisements inserted for the first time in the newspapers. They read...
Author Galsworthy was born in 1867, of oldest and best Devonshire stock. He qualified for the law, but was sufficiently well off to be bored with it and travel. On a voyage between Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn...
Died. Edwin M. Carter, 60, Manhattan broker (Carter & Co.), since 1918 a governor of the New York Stock Exchange; of heart disease; in Allenhurst...