Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth and his first assistant, Russell J. Ryan, had resigned...
Next year, when the presidency fell vacant, the disgruntled directors put Salesman Sandy Calder in the job on six-months' probation. He cut salaries and expenses $100,000 at once, shifted to imported pulp, at year's end had a neat $112,500 profit. A price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily...
...Hoxie decided that Mena, her trainer, and his pinto pony were costing too much money. He gave Trainer Cooper $10 and proceeded on his way. The $10 bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, hay. But Mena, growing impatient with her freedom, broke loose, lumbered off. Trainer Cooper, careening after her on his pinto pony and chased by screaming children, finally caught, her. After three more days...
...those Southern New England trains which are in the habit of slowly running from Boston to Woods Hole. The train being in mid-journey and no immediate prospect of things quickly becoming either better or worse, the Vagabond was perhaps justified in assuming his habitual vacant air, which is to say neither better nor worse, glad...
...huge lava flow crept across south central Idaho, moving south, filling in canyons, leveling off the countryside. When the flow ceased, the upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...