Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wake trailed the destroyer Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon...
...Evanston, Ill., that prime New Deal prophet of Federal paternalism, Secretary Wallace, who had promised to make no political speeches on his rescue tour, worried aloud over the possibility of a "weather change" which might be turning the U. S. into a desert. "Of course," he declared, "it is premature to say that our weather has definitely changed, but if we have during the next seven years, weather as freakish as that which we have had during the last seven, it may well be that the people of the U. S. will call on the Federal Government in no unmistakable...
...Return of Sophie Lang (Paramount) is a shipboard anecdote of a thief's (Gertrude Michael) redemption. Force opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry...
...eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing to compromise. Not so the sincere fanatic desert Arabs who follow them and are always ready for a new holy...
...Since 1930 the Guggenheim Fund has been paying expenses of Robert Hutchings Goddard's experiments in the American desert near Roswell, New Mexico with (1 television, 2 dry farming, 3 rockets, 4 high compression gasoline engines, 5 malleable glass...