Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winters ago my brother and myself were hunting rabbits in Central Illinois for a living. We would leave home early in the mornings and return late-but on Sundays the rabbits in the vicinity lived on borrowed time until we had heard Mr. Bradley's sermon. I have no greater respect for the mind of any man than I have for this lover of mankind. Although I'm not religious myself the precepts of this minister could inspire nothing but elevating thoughts and love for one's neighbor. I believe his capacity for doing good...
...them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning wondered why, friends in Washington soon told him. Representative Sol Bloom, who five years ago as head of an official commission celebrated George Washington's Bicentennial almost singlehanded, has as his constituency the upper part of Central Park and neighboring parts of Manhattan. If Mr. McReynolds becomes a Senator, Sol Bloom will succeed by seniority to the high post of Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Best dances: Astaire solo in a mechanistic routine in the ship's engine room; Astaire & Rogers plus a masked chorus from which she is almost indistinguishable; Astaire & Rogers on roller skates in Central Park. Best tunes in the slick George & Ira Gershwin score: They All Laughed, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing...
With the prospect of two years field work in the desert plateau of central Persia, Bennett F. Buie, proctor in Wigglesworth and Geology 1 section man, will sail from Now York this morning on an expedition sent out by the American Oil Company...
...Lynn Bachman, 58, Tennessee's junior Democratic Senator, appointed in 1933 when Cordell Hull was drafted for the Cabinet and twice reelected, onetime (1918-24) Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; of heart disease; in Washington. He played football nine seasons at Southwestern (Presbyterian), Washington & Lee and Central universities, joked that he had been expelled from all three...