Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny part about the incident is that I own and operate the Main Line Golf Driving Range at Ardmore and have been dodging golf balls for 10 years without getting hit. then I take an afternoon off to see the finish of the U. S. Open Championship and, "whack!", Craig Wood's brassie shot on the 18th lands me in the Bryn Mawr Hospital where I have been ever since...
...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...Townsend Foundation, a contingency fund raised by contributions and birthday balls, had a $28,315 surplus. "Time and tide are fighting with us!" shouted California's Senator Sheridan ("Ham & Eggs") Downey at the convention. But Dr. Townsend, who is 72, said that if neither the Republicans nor Democrats take over his cause nationally before long, he will form a third party. "We're getting tired of waiting," he shrilled...
...Refuse to take part in Social Security Legislation...
...Salop is regarded as one of the best credit risks in the trade. To one of them he once sent a check made out for "one tusan dollars.'' The check was good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week; likewise the second daughter, born...