Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
...Studies in Massachusetts Town Finance", by Eugene E. Oakes, instructor in Economics. $2.50. Dr. Oakes proves that the study of small individual communities is definitely worth while in studying the relation between benefits and taxation in local finance. The book covers the experiences of nine towns...
...September in the Rain", tune which Melton introduces in his downtown night club promises to achieve some success. For this, and a few moments of good music, the picture is worth going...
...Raised at a raucous Bethlehem Steel stockholders' meeting in Wilmington, Del. was the perennial question of whether 75-year-old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab is still worth his $200,000 salary. The old steelmaster was on hand to give the meeting his blessing with an optimistic appreciation of the "complete cooperation and understanding between management and stockholders." Hardly had he finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert...
Heroes of Editor White's editorial page are his fellow-Emporians. They have their foibles but none worth getting really sore about. They need a scolding now & then, but what they need oftenest is a pat on the back, maybe some kidding. In his warm but unmaudlin obituaries, Editor White shows the full measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom...