Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The activities of a Man-of-the-Year are bound to be manifold. Being board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. might not keep some men very busy, but it keeps Owen D. Young busy because of another quality which made him internationally invaluable at Paris: his sensitiveness...
It was this last foresight which took him last month to Washington, D. C., and, by a quirk of human affairs, to the borderland of another phase of the future. The Senators who asked him to come and tell about Radio Corp.'s plan for selling its communications business...
His visit with the Senate was not Mr. Young's only visit in Washington last month. As deputy chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank he has given far more time to stabilizing the U. S. financial structure than to Europe's. It was in this capacity...
"Formerly when a man bought a plug of tobacco to chew he got a good-sized piece that enabled him to be generous in sharing it with his fellows. Now, largely due to the tax, the plug commonly used does not contain more than a half a dozen good-sized...
¶Near Ruston, La. on Christmas Eve. Sheriff A. J. Thigpen and two deputies dug up a gallon jug of whiskey near the house of Farmer Philip Harris. When they entered the house, the farmer made "a suspicious move" toward his coat pocket. The sheriff shot him dead.