Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press: "I'm glad I wasn't at the service. I might have got up and answered him then & there. I have deep respect for Bishop Manning, but I would like to call his attention to the fact that the first Episcopal church, near Cheshire, Conn, was built by a lottery. Bishop Seabury, grandfather of Samuel Seabury, conducted...
...organize farmers in co-operative associations to build power lines on money borrowed for 25 years from the Government. But States, Territories and even "persons and corporations" can borrow money for that purpose. Power plants, as the bill's backers explained, would be built only where necessary, since in most cases power would simply be bought from existing utilities. Individual farmers would be given five-year loans to wire their houses and install electric equipment. Of the $40,000,000 a year ($50,000,000 of RFC money the first year), half will be divided among the States...
...explain all this to their own satisfaction in terms of the Right parties and the tycoons who control them. Germany's Army is too strong for what the French call a "preventive war" to be effective. Therefore France must temporize with Germany until her Army and alliances are built...
Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked...
...Great Ziegfeld was in production two years. It lasts three hours, cost $2,000,000 and includes the most ornate sets of its kind ever built. It was written by William Anthony McGuire, author of five shows for Ziegfeld, and directed with monumental opulence by Robert Z. Leonard. In addition to three cinema stars, its cast includes three genuine Ziegfeld celebrities (Fanny Brice, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger) and accurate counterfeits of two others: Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor and A. A. Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last...