Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spaniards talked about a canal across the northern part of Florida 150 years ago. General Andrew Jackson, first U. S. Governor of the Territory of Florida, was enthusiastic over the canal idea. President John Quincy Adams, Jackson's political rival, went so far as to have Army engineers survey a route. Generations passed and in 1930 Florida Congressmen got a bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan...
...opposition. There are a few scattered Communists still alive, but in hiding. There are still a few liberals not yet confined to barbed-wired "camps." Factories are silent and empty; the ports are clogged with rusting ships; only the rich have enough to eat. When old-fashioned Liberal Andrew Hillier, second cousin to Dictator Frank, gets back to England from his self-imposed exile in Norway, this is the England he finds. Andrew's sister has married Richard Sacker, the Dictator's right-hand man, so Andrew has some privileges where otherwise he would not have been safe...
...Knoedler & Co. proudly announced the acquisition of the Thomas B. Clarke collection of early U. S. portraits. The sale price was around $1,000,000. In Knoedler's de luxe parlors, the occasion was comparable in excitement to the purchase by that firm two years ago for Andrew William Mellon of Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba, from the Soviet Government's Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
...several billion dollars, the country was paying for its higher life and new vision. The end may be social justice, but the means, Mr. Sullivan proves with facts and quotations, is the extension of inefficiency, corruption, and spoils in the national administration such as has not been equalled since Andrew Jackson...
...late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is now. by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful, rightful Liege-Lord. Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas. King, Defender of the Faith. Emperor of India...