Word: chips
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Married. Louisa Ayres Robert, 24, comely swimming star, daughter of National Democratic Committee Secretary Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. by his first wife, Louise Ayres; and Grant Meade Le Roux: in Atlanta...
Comely Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, wife of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee, once kicked a portrait of herself full in the face, once threw a monster birthday party for her horse. In Washington last week Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus made a deal with her: if Mrs. Robert appeared in one regular performance, the circus would give a benefit show for sick children. Game, Evie Robert dressed up as an Indian princess, timidly mounted, confidently squatted on the head of a much-enduring pachyderm...
...think somebody's been pulling our legs," Bowie reported. At the same time the lovable tousle-headed lan from Passaic announced that he would take the first trick on the mound in the yearly blue-chip classic Thursday...
...gross. But it would shave P. G. & E.'s profits from this market, since costlier power than Hetch Hetchy's would have to come from P. G. & E.'s own turbines and stand-by plants. Last week P. G. & E. common, a Wall Street blue chip, dropped 1¾ points, hit a new low (31¾) for the year...
...trade with both sides as much as or little as we pleased, an insistence that naturally ran headlong into British, determination to starve out Germany. This policy could not succeed unless backed by the force, and as a result the British gradually wore it away, using each incident to chip off a little more of the foundation on which we built the structure, until the whole thing collapsed. German attacks capped the climax, and it was hard for the U.S. to become enraged at British economic pressure while Germany was taking, America lives. In addition, the gates...