Word: ark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Franklin Roosevelt last week at Little Rock, Ark. and he devoted the better part of his week to detailing his reflections. Month ago when the Press described his trip as his first campaign tour he retorted that his speeches would be historical. Historical they were, each picking an ancient example to point a New Deal moral. Thus by laying the foundation of his campaign upon the stones of history, he strove to answer the Republican contention that the New Deal is perverting the traditional institutions of the U. S. His historical fables at Little Rock, Dallas, Vincennes...
...still on" the sidewalk in front of Cleveland's Public Hall, when the preliminaries of the Republican National Convention got under way. For Republicans were in such a hurry last week that they overflowed Cleveland long before their convention began. More eager than animals to get aboard the Ark before the Flood, politicians came...
...widely beloved of U. S. businesses. On the annual news that the circus is coming to town, even the dourest city editor is moved to let his newshawks soar far from earthy fact into the empyrean of their fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free publicity for "the Greatest Show on Earth"; his only problem has been how much he would get this time. The myth...
...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...Southampton, where the Queen Mary was berthed last week, her synagog was quietly consecrated by Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. Bearded Rabbi Hertz gazed appreciatively at the handsome seagoing synagog, complete with Shulcran (reading desk). Holy Ark containing the Torah (scroll of Hebrew law) and everlasting lamp. Then he made a little speech pointing out that this was the first time a synagog had ever been included in the original plans of a ship. France's Normandie recently added a synagog seating 48 to take care of Jewish...