Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma City some 25 years ago. Two years ago Oklahoma realized that Joshua Bryan Lee was no joke when it sent that professor of elocution at the State University to Congress, where he attracted immediate attention by mellifluous, effective speechmaking. Last week Representative Josh Lee, 44, again proved his worth when he won the Democratic run-off primary for the U. S. Senate. Swamped by the largest majority (112,000 votes) in Oklahoma history was Democratic Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland...
...future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety...
...kazoos running from ordinary noisemakers at 5? to fancy models at 50?. According to Kazooman Pochapin, his business this year has been booming as the result of political conventions, swing music and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. No pessimist, Mr. Pochapin predicts he will sell $250,000 worth of kazoos in 1936, which would be $236,000 more than he sold last year...
...hurt," pleads a roadside poster in a current upstate New York highway safety drive. Last week Commissioner William F. Carey of New York City's Sanitation Department, which operates more vehicles (3,000) than any other municipal department, declared that such temporary safety drives are not "worth a darn." Having tried them without success the Sanitation Department two years ago formed a permanent safety division whose sole job is to decrease accidents by rigorous investigation and constant regulation. Since then, accidents to the department's trucks have steadily declined until last month they reached...
Last spring 7,000 gloomy Amoskeag mill hands filed into the Manchester Armory, voted by a slim majority to accept $9.60 a week if the plant would reopen. Few days later the flood crest of the Merrimack River wiped out $2,500,000 worth of Amoskeag property, ruined all hopes of putting the plant in operation. Editorialized the Boston Herald last week: "If there is any satisfaction for the unemployed in knowing that they stuck to the ship to the last, these Amoskeag workers have...