Dollar Worth It Twenty Years Ago
Ken Hand discusses purchasing power of the dollar using 1939 as a base and 1959 values. He cites Dr. Arthur A. Smith of First National Bank in Dallas, inflation effects on wages, home and car prices, and fixed incomes, arguing that the 48c dollar is gone and wealth preservation risks push savers toward stocks or real estate.
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Arthur A. Smith
First National Bank
Dallas
U. S. News and World Report
Knucklehead
Florida
Americana
Dr. Smith
Treasury
Mr. X
American Bankers Association
Lost voter and cow tale from Chandler campaign
In Washington Governor A B Chandler recalls a Kentucky gubernatorial race memory. He spoke with a young woman milking a cow when an older neighbor urged Nancy to bring the cow inside, labeling the recruiter a politician. The anecdote ends with the mother’s quip about bringing the cow in.
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Washington
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Nancy
Humorous Bits Yet Color City Life of New York
Light city vignettes unfold in a collage of jokes and anecdotes. A hotel switchboard drama, a boy’s profanity vow, dinner wit over Omar Khayyam, misread literature, a millennium lesson, a wedding cue, and a sleepy sign on a door.
Farmer's Daughter Milks Amid Bull Charge
A visitor witnessed a farmer's daughter calmly milking a cow as a raging bull charged. The animal stopped short of them and the man fled for cover. She nonchalantly continued, explaining the cow is the bull's mother-in-law.
Measure of a man and a digamist in a old rally
The governor of New Hampshire was introduced in a western state where a local politician quips that the leader is not as large as imagined. The reply toys with different ways of measuring a man, chin up versus chin down, followed by a joke about a second marriage.
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New Hampshire
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the Defenders of Freedom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Atlantic
NATO Information
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