Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hobbies: farm relief, protection of U. S. Indians, veterans' care. On the first two, at least, he is an expert along party lines. In appearance he tries to resemble Bryan, facially better resembles Benjamin Franklin. He is heavyset, bobbed-haired, mild-mannered. He dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother...
...General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon Germans by a stroke of his goose-quill taxes totaling $115,000,000 which had previously been rejected by the Reichstag. After signing this extraordinary decree at midnight, Old Paul went troubled to bed. In the grey Berlin dawn millions of papers were imprinted with the ominous words: VEILED DICTATORSHIP...
Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...
...sultry grey days without sun and days when light airs rolled the sea into innumerable gay reflections of summer, the America's Cup yachts sailed their first official trials off Newport, R. I. On Vincent Astor's Nourmahal the skippers met and sat around a table while Commodore Astor drew four slips of paper out of a hat, each with the name of a yacht on it. It had been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three...