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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussing Drought in Kansas with the President and those other prime Republican targets, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Resettlement Administrator Tugwell. WPAdministrator Hopkins. Their talk, it was reported, differed not at all from others the President had been having on his tour. At its end Governor Landon left a memorandum built around his 1934 proposals. At his hotel, he assured newshawks that he had had a pleasant and productive conference...
...Manhattan, Jesse Owens announced that he was ready to stump for Alf M. Landon, was quoted as saying: "This country was built on the sweat and blood of the Negro race and this fact hasn't yet been recognized. I believe Governor Landon will recognize it. . . . His election will be good for America and for the people of the colored race. . . . I want to meet Governor Landon personally." Shocked at Owens' ingratitude were Democrats. At Ohio State, Jesse Owens has been drawing $3 per day since February 1935 as a non-working page in the Democratic Legislature...
...before giving up Irun was to set torches to this ''Wool Capital of Spain" and burn it to the ground. Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins. It is we who built these palaces and cities here in Spain. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are going to inherit the earth. There is' not the slightest doubt about that...
...seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built Majestic, once "The World's Largest And Fastest Liner...
...Imperial Russian Government. In 1905 the Imperial Chinese Government bought back the concession for $6,750,000. At the time the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, some 30 miles of the railway had been completed. In succeeding turbulent years parts of the line were built by fits & starts by Chinese groups to serve their local interests...