Word: leatherizing
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When young Assistant Solicitor Daniel Duke brandished two heavy, cleated leather lashes, crying out: "A man could kill a bull elephant with one of these," the Governor interrupted and took over the defense himself. Of the floggers he said, "Some of them thought they were doing the right thing. I have seen some pretty good people get misguided and cut the fool." At the conclusion of the hearing he remarked, "These men have been away from their families long enough...
...redhead; I'm liable to do anything," affably croaked Manhattan's No. 1 collector of French art, leather-faced ex-Utilities Tycoon Chester Dale. What Collector Dale was liable to do was a question that worried many a U.S. museum. From 1926 (when his wife switched his ruling passion from fire engines to art) to 1936 Collector Dale bought French paintings as shrewdly as he formerly consolidated power companies. His collection, now valued at $6,000,000 to $15,000,000, outgrew three Manhattan apartments, now fills five floors of a museumlike private mansion on East 79th Street...
Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
Though Ringleader Sutphin may never realize his dream of a hockey World Series between the champions of the American and National Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...
...Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...