Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jenks's cronies at the Manchester Country Club, observing that no one had yet filed for the Republican Congressional primaries in their district, egged on their friend to put in his name. Golfer Jenks, who in the previous 70 years of his career had never given politics a thought, did exactly that. Result of this haphazard gesture has been for Golfer Jenks one of the most tantalizing experiences in the history of U. S. legislation...
Opinion, all interchange of vigorous thought, suffocated...
...bombing of the International Settlement was intentional, a good many oldtime residents thought that they knew one explanation: Japan by treaty rights is a member of the International Settlement at Shanghai, whose neutrality is theoreti cally protected by the guns of half-a-dozen foreign powers. During the 1932 siege Japanese warships would calmly attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood...
After the race last week Owner Shep pard, who posted Shirley Hanover's final $500 starting fee only on the insistence of Driver Thomas, thought he might in two or three years have a really great trotter. The fastest active U. S. trotter, Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Grey hound, who stepped a mile in 1:57¼ in a free-for-all at Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen...
...never thought of doing so in 1923 when its earnings reached the giddy peak of $31.84 a share, nor in 1927 when its profits on 1,581 U. S. and Canadian stores averaged $16,805 per store. But when profits per store began to drop in 1928 and Depression accentuated the skid, Woolworth contemplated changes. By 1932 when profits per store were down to $8,093, Woolworth's moved towards higher prices to compete with rival chains which offered a line of merchandise broader in price and quality. This year with profits per store down...