Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Frank Lyon Polk, and Margaret Smith Salvage in swank Lattingtown, L. I. went J. Pierpont Morgan. When he went into the church, he clapped his topper over his face to foil a battery of nine cameramen. When he left the church he threatened the cameramen with his umbrella. On each occasion he was thoroughly photographed. Muttered the 69-year-old financier, getting into his Rolls-Royce: "They won't leave me alone. And those flashlights scare me to death...
...boarding house on the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, where Edward of Wales and Mrs. Simpson stayed happily for a time in 1935, the Duke took up residence. He was obsequiously conducted from car to boarding house by officials of the British diplomatic service, one of whom held an umbrella over His Royal Highness, for brilliant sunshine had changed to a driving blizzard...
...scheme to enlarge the Monroe Doctrine, so that in case of war the United Kingdom would enjoy shelter under this U. S. umbrella, was outlined to Their Lordships last week by the Marquess of Lothian, fresh from the U. S. Alarmed by what he had learned of U. S. neutrality legislation, Lord Lothian warned that in the next war Britain may not only find it impossible to borrow from the U. S. but suffer even more. "In certain circumstances we may be debarred from buying raw materials and foodstuffs," cried the Marquess, "even if we have the cash...
...treaties. If these articles were scrapped, the United Kingdom could take an aloof attitude toward war on the Continent, whereas today her obligations under the Covenant make this impossible, and such aloofness would be the first prerequisite for Britain to get in under a Monroe Doctrine or other protective umbrella spreading out from the American Continents. *Population of Canada at latest census...
...nine-tenths of the country's entire can business. But by the time the trustbusters of Roosevelt I got to work on it, American Can had already destroyed its virtual monopoly by its dizzying prices. Competitors had swarmed in under the "Tin Can Trust's" big price umbrella, capitalized on the wrath of the canners. One of the competitors, Continental Can, was founded by an old American Can man who set his son up in the business, thus getting around an agreement with his old company not to make cans on his own for 15 years within...