Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) One midday last week a maple-&-aluminum elevator shot half a dozen well-known Democrats up to the 21st floor of Manhattan's Empire State Building. They stepped out into the comfortable quarters of the Empire State Club, were bowed into a private dining room overlooking 34th Street. Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters...
Swaying foolishly in a strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After...
...porpoise a fish or a mammal?") and were about to turn to page 55 for the answers, they were arrested by still another question. It read: "What is the Priceless Ingredient of every product? (See page 55 for the answer)." In an instant the puzzlers saw that the 21st question was part of a half-page advertisement for Squibb Aspirin. On page 55 they learned not only that a porpoise is a mammal, but that "The Priceless Ingredient of Every Product is the Honor and Integrity of its Maker. . . ." In every issue of Liberty for 52 weeks E. R. Squibb...
...Author-Rare for a first or 21st novel are Author Hutchinson's simple clarity, obvious sincerity, tenderness and understanding. Previous to this well-told tale of two gritty women he contributed to Oxford's his (he went to Oriel), the Manchester Guardian, Punch, the English Review. No missionary, he is 25, married, has a daughter, works in the advertising department of a London wholesale grocery...
...Will of the Country." Since Congress convened in December, President Hoover had made 20 public statements on Economy & Taxation. Suddenly, sharply he now sent up Capitol Hill a 21st pronouncement. Said...