Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
Suddenly three weeks ago, Senator Van Nuys, vacationing in Michigan, received a telegram from Governor Townsend, inviting him to be a candidate for renomination before an "open" State convention. Last week, at Indianapolis. Governor Townsend orated: "I sincerely hope you will select those who will cooperate in the broad liberal program of our President for recovery and security." And Senator Van Nuys was renominated by acclamation...
...thoughtful U. S. churchmen know many a U. S. cult has prospered by: 1) promising, and to some extent producing visible results here & now; 2) spreading doctrines which seem more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location...
Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes offered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own though they are already served by private utilities.* To receive these beneficences, the 21 municipalities, said Mr. Ickes. must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition. . . ." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than...
Last week the augurs of Manhattan's Wall and Broad Streets, weary of watching for omens on ticker tapes, turned to their windows to see the propitious flight of a rare and happily named bird-a Bird of Paradise. The brilliant yellow, green, and red-brown bird had escaped from Paramount Aquarium Inc. (a downtown animal, bird and fish importing concern), winged its way over the financial district to 15 Broad Street, was finally captured at high noon...