Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
...midnight, Host Gettle and a friend named Wolf were alone in the pavilion having a drink at a new bar. They had just clinked glasses when two masked men walked in. "Put 'em up." Gettle and Wolf were led outside and across the garden to a high wall. Leaving Wolf taped and bound, the snatchers hoisted Gettle's 500-lb. bulk over the wall by a ladder, dumped him down on the far side, drove him off into the night...
...Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...Harriman cheerfully admitted that the Chamber had been formulating plans for regulating industry and agriculture as far back as 1931. What the Chamber had not originated were such checks & balances as the labor section of NIRA or the Government's power to impose codes on an unwilling industry. Wolf. Last year President Roosevelt went before the fearful Chambermen in person to explain his ideas of a partnership between Government and Business. The Chamber promptly plumped for self-regulation under the Government's watchful eye, but few of the delegates foresaw how close and intimate that partnership...
...Your membership largely represents those interests which, from motives of self-interest as well as good citizenship, have a leading role to play. ... It is time to stop crying 'wolf and to cooperate in working for recovery and for the continued elimination of evil conditions of the past...