Word: 31st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Broun celebrated his sist birthday, his 31st year as a newspaperman. A prodigious writer in spite of his pose of indolence, he figured that he had turned out close to 21,000,000 words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...
...open-air lunch with the President at Hyde Park, New York's Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
...Hopkinton yokels, looking them over as though they were horses in a paddock, pointed to a stolid, bronze-skinned young man. "Look, there's the Indian, Tarzan Brown, who won in 1936. But he went over to those Olympics and hasn't been the same since. Finished 31st two years ago and 54th last year. He'll set the pace-and burn himself...
...first hole, flubbed around the greens, Patty, wearing trousers, played as though she had her ball mesmerized. In the afternoon round, with her mother nervously watching from the fringe of the crowd, she got seven one-putt greens in 13 holes, avenged last year's defeat on the 31st green...
While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that...