Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first few days at Warm Springs were partly spent in saying hello to old friends and catching up on his personal affairs, visiting his 2,800-acre farm on Pine Mountain and making out his Federal income tax.* On his first trip in his car he took Daughter-in-law Betsey, his personal secretary Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Ambassador Bullitt. To Columnist Walter Winchell, whose mind runs largely in one channel, the inference from such events was clear. Wrote Gossip Winchell...
Having satisfied the President of his liberality, Alfred Murrah last week took his oath in Oklahoma City as the nation's youngest Federal Judge. He rode into Oklahoma City 18 years ago in a box car, was booted off by a brakeman, worked his way through high school and State University, set himself up in law practice. Aged 33, he promised solemnly to retire...
...three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati's $25,000 to Wisconsin's $15,000, but after a three-hour conference, during which he was promised a car, a chauffeur, a horse, and other perquisites, he accepted. Thereupon the committee prepared to have his appointment formally confirmed by the full Board of 15 Regents this week...
Last week in Albany the Governor signed the new bill. Next day in Rochester City Court a radio repairman named Maurice Thomas, 33, pleaded guilty to intoxication after his car smashed into a bus. Said Judge Gitelman as he sentenced him to spend three week ends in jail: "This law is to be used only when the court feels a straight sentence endangers a man's job. His family does not suffer, he is only deprived of his valued leisure time." Repairman Thomas' jail week ends will run from sundown Saturday until sundown Sunday...
...author of a book of West Indian dialect poems about his native Jamaica. Claude McKay went to Tuskegee Institute, switched to Kansas State Agricultural College, quit to become a dining-car waiter. In 1918 tiny, roaring Frank Harris certified him a genius. More encouragement came from Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. McKay went to London to meet Shaw, who reminded him of "an evergreen plant grown indoors...an antelope...chinaware," Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like...