Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Exposition opened on schedule and with it the new $1,225,000 Temple of Agriculture, penny-bright and new-broom clean. On hand was Chicago's Mayor Kelly to make a speech. Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas Edward Wilson to entertain at dinner 1,300 healthiest members of the 4-H Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down...
...unqualifiedly labeled the whole thing spurious. The defense had no experts. A Herr Rev. Munchmeyer of Oldenberg, Germany had not even replied to the Nazi invitation to represent their side. The defense state of mind seemed to be that of Dr. Alfred Zander in whose journal Eisernen Besen (Iron Broom) the Protocols had been published. He testified simply that he considered them authentic because no one had ever complained about them before...
...group consisted chiefly of journalistic wits like Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, who lunched together daily at the Algonquin Hotel. With them at the green baize table were two characters who did not fit into the regular membership. One was a nervous, profane, broom-thatched wild man from the West named Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other...
Convinced of the efficacy of Mr. Houghton's fog broom, newshawks last week rushed to him with demands for the chemical formula. Mr. Houghton put up his hands. "That," he smiled, "is a secret...
...foremost novelist, did his bit for reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened and why it has happened. As a human being I cannot justify it. . . . The German people...