Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph Struthers Richards, a spruce, popular socialite who heads one of the biggest brokerage houses in Pittsburgh, Kay, Richards...
...editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator, chubby-faced young Col. Rafael Franco (TIME, March 2). Last week, fascinated by government as a child is fascinated by a new toy, the young Colonel began issuing fundamental Constitutional proclamations right & left...
...both are fearful, neither wants an out and out trial of strength. The cause of the Mongolian difficulties cannot be dismissed with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...
...Mabel Eaton of Montclair, N. J. had brought suit for divorce against her husband Warren, charging cruelty. Husband Eaton filed a countersuit, going his wife one better by charging she kicked him while he was bending over a toy last Christmas eve. Seeking custody of their daughter Mabel, 10; and their son Warren Jr., 5, Father Eaton submitted that he is a Methodist, that his wife had announced that that denomination is one with which she would not permit her children to be connected. Mr. Eaton said his wife had brought home atheist pamphlets, schedule of atheist meetings, Karl Marx...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...