Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court decision that will rehabilitate the bases of administrative jurisdiction, and make the Federal Trade Commission even stronger than it was before Ben Avon's axe fell; despite the optimism of the administration newspapers, there is not much reason to believe that Justice Hughes' conversion renders a reactionary tack either impossible or improbable...
...year-old fort which serves as the governor's mansion, Acting Governor Benjamin J. Horton was lunching with Deputy NRAdministrator Boaz Walton Long. NRAdministrator Long stepped to the window, took one look at the crowd and at the tack-strewn streets, decided to postpone his inspection tour of the island. Colonel Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican police, came bumping into San Juan from Rio Piedras with 23 punctures. "This is anarchy!" he cried...
...Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time, Gene Howe gave a tea for her at which...
...overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make bottle-caps. It was news when Kermit Roosevelt and John Sargent, the insurance partner of James Roosevelt, took seats on the Tack board. It was news last week when the Tack directors voted to split the stock three-for-one. Next day Tack stock...
...Atlas Tack's main plant is in Fairhaven, Mass., birthplace of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers, who returned to rebuild and landscape his home town and incidentally to buy Atlas. But his family sold Atlas to some Boston bankers in 1920; rugs grew more popular than carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets...