Word: crackers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Gottlieb Eckstein, 75, partner in the firm making Cracker Jack (candied popcorn), coiner of their slogan, "The More You Eat the More You Want"; in Ontario, Calif...
...exactly 10 p. m. the World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared...
...roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...Staels, Helens. . . . The poised, experienced, gorgeously equipped Madam Minister of today is schooled to her finger tips." At her arrival last week, Danish orchestras burst into ''Springtime in Denmark- Lilacs in Bloom," the words by Madam Minister, music by her daughter, "Ruth the Second." As the cracker for her arrival Madam Minister announced that bushy-bearded Premier Thorvald ("Greenland for the Eskimos") Stauning of Denmark would accept an invitation to visit President Roosevelt in the White House next spring...
Then came the real cracker of the Doumergue speech, a demand for immediate constitutional reforms...