Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and Senator Barkley, who as Administration leader in the Senate is "Dear Alben" to the President. Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile. At the Latonia racetrack in Covington, before the speechmaking began, "Happy" Chandler got to the front of the platform for a lot of wisecracking and folksy gesturing until suppressed by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President's turn came, he frankly listed the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Kentucky by the New Deal, flatly said: "I have...
...Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal law prohibits official bale forecasts before August...
Ever since the year-old Japanese invasion of China began, Japan has resented the fact that the seasoned veteran, General von Falkenhausen, German chief of staff of the Turkish Armies during the World War, was advising the stubborn if not wholly successful Chinese military strategists. Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission...
...will win the pennants. Last week Wall Street traders seemingly fought to see which could get the highest batting average before the holiday. As brokers raced from post to post, the ticker day after day fell behind. Volume reached new peaks as the public all over the U. S. began buying. One day, 1,090,000 shares changed hands in the first hour-heaviest trading in nine months. June, which had promised to produce the thinnest trading since the War, ended with more shares (23,364,130) being sold than in any month so far this year...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...