Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin, who handed in his resignation last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Because the Treasury thought Mr. Mellon had a larger 1931 income than he reported, it asked $3,075,103 in additional taxes and penalties. Among the important issues that this brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board...
...leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn out to be remarkable. Last week before a three-man condemnation commission in Knoxville George Berry estimated that his marble, now largely under water, might be worth...
...Senility" is the charge hurled at Harvard men in an article appearing in one of the current undergraduate literary publications, a charge hurled with all the vigor of intellectual potency which it denies in others, a charge which cries out for the undergraduates to rise and prove their intellectual worth before it is too late. The basis for this claim that the youth in College at the present day have passed their intelectual prime and are tottering in dotage seems to rest on "the observable tendency of the College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form of professorial...
...dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year-old Hampstead native said: "They completely blocked the channel. There were so many and they were so thick they smothered each other to death. Folks carried off two truckloads of big sharks that were trapped in the run and smothered...