Word: striping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...Cleaves Johnson, 56, longtime (1915-33) Republican Representative from South Dakota; of a heart attack, in Washington, D. C. In 1917 he voted against U. S. entrance into the World War, then left Congress to enlist as a private, in France won promotion to a first-lieutenancy, a wound stripe and the Distinguished Service Cross...
...soon had allies of an opposite stripe -a band of eleven Senators led by Oklahoma's silver-haired Thomas and Nevada's roseate McCarran, who advanced an inflation plan calling for $2,000,000,000 of new paper currency to be backed by the Treasury's idle gold. Idaho's Borah and Nevada's Pittman joined them in demanding, further, that the price now paid for silver by the Treasury (64.64? per oz.) be raised much higher above the market price (40¾?). For four long days last week they tied up other legislation while...
...Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...
Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would...