Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they had fried chicken. But no diamond rings, no champagne, no bottle-busting, neck-breaking carnival for the Masons. Pearl had a better idea. "I always wanted to help out people of my color," said...
Flower. "What else could I do?" City Hall ferrets had their own idea of what the row was about: Franklin Roosevelt's devoted friend Jim Kieran was outraged "because the Mayor lately has buttered up Herbert Hoover...
Impulsive Mr. LaGuardia quickly regretted his anger, tried to get word to Jim Kieran that all was forgiven. The other Kierans said they had no idea where Jim was. Friends thought they knew. When the Kierans let their Irish get the better of them, they generally retire to Helen's Connecticut farm to cool...
...partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer...
...Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more effective than zinc sulfate...