Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Hull, tailed by Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, (She was the only Cabinet member unaccompanied by her spouse, Mr. Paul Wilson.) Second came Congress, as represented by Senator Pat Harrison. Third, to the surprise of many a guest, came Presidential Secretaries Louis McHenry Howe and Stephen T. Early, ahead of the diplomats home for the holidays: Ambassador Long from Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington, Federal Reserve Governor Eccles, Comptroller General McCarl, Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse...
...words signaled a free track ahead for the Speakership race. Boss Joseph F (for nothing) Guffey of Pennsylvania presently turned up in Washington and called on Vice President Garner for the unconventional purpose of presenting his own credentials as Senator-elect from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Guffey did not go to Washington alone. He took with him his political manager, David L. Lawrence, and the whole House delegation of 23 Democrats elected from Pennsylvania last month...
...better polo than most of his confreres, wanted one near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first meet. Producer Roach and Dr. Strub got together, raised $1,250,000, bought 210 acres of the famed Santa Anita Rancho at Arcadia where 40 years ago the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin bred racehorses...
Mothers Kenny and Bagnato, with 22 months of competition ahead of them, last week both vowed they would have more babies in an effort...
...question about our ability to out-build, in the event of war, Japan or any other nation. Thus, either with the 5-5-3 ratio or the 5-5-5, provided one of the limitations are determined upon, the conclusion is that we would be still one step ahead...