Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over his election. His plan is the EPIC plan--End Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet...
...Harvard University Employment Bureau has gathered together an extremely varied group of entertainers and lecturers, we find. One gentleman an authority on Russia, is "also prepared to deliver short illustrated talks to children on bee-keeping, sword fishing, and the life of the American sailor". Another of the lecturers is portentously entitled, "Astronomer"; he gives a talk which, oddly enough is set for the non-astronomical brethren...
Wallace. To Des Moines last week also went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. To the cornhusking bee in Nebraska he broadcast a description of the first U. S. bee, which he sponsored in 1923 to make cornhusking an art instead of drudgery. Des Moines is Secretary Wallace's home town. Before becoming a Cabinet official he edited Wallace's Farmer there, Iowans turned out 10,000 strong to hear their native son speak in the Coliseum. He declared that the Government's corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated...
...Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president of Bank of New York & Trust Co.; President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth; Thomas Day Thacher...
...wind-up of the meet for the famed 100-mi. Thompson Trophy, Designer Z. D. Granville spunkily entered one of his stock model Gee Bee's, but every observer knew the winner was simply a choice of one of the three Wedell-Williams...