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...employes in the form of stock distributions, $6,000,000. His civic improvements in Rochester were the Rochester Dental Dispensary, Rochester Chamber of Commerce Building, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Theatre (now closed), Rochester Civic Orchestra. To Rome, London, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels he gave million-dollar dental & throat clinics. His private interests included art, music, big game hunting (in Africa, with the Martin Johnsons), calendar reform. He whittled, baked cakes & pies, collected orchids and firearms, was awakened every morning by pipe organ. He never married...
...Committee had arranged for her to address the Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at Detroit early this month. Soon thereafter the Business & Professional Republican Women's Club of Boston would be waiting to hear her. The Second Lady had to get the frog out of her throat so she could give these audiences some of the oratory that lately has made her a big drawing card in the Midwest...
Startled by a squeal, Horace Holden turned his head, saw a sight that throttled him. He stamped on his brakes and lunged toward the back seat. Old Laborer Smith was pressing a knife blade against the throat of Spitz Fluffy...
...balanced, all your temporary relief measures, all your Reconstruction Finance Corporations and everything else will be futile, for the cornerstone on which employment and economic recovery rest is a balanced budget." Deeply moved, the entire House jumped to its feet, clapped till its hands were red, cheered till its throat was hoarse for this little Georgia Democrat who put country above self and party...
...sugarmen's tempers were short and ruffled. Cut-throat prices, rebates, allowances to favorite customers had demoralized the refiners' business. To make matters worse, there was a steadily smaller consumption, result of a growing public determination to keep down the national waistline...