Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good citizens were left to draw one of two conclusions. One was that the long-needed post of Assistant President of the U. S. had been created and filled. The language of the Executive Order placed Donald Richberg over the Cabinet. Many a Washington correspondent wrote the news that the President had picked a No. 1 assistant, a coordinator of coordinators. Coordination, it seemed, was sweeping the country...
...have examined the record carefully," decided Judge Wilkerson, "and am constrained to say that at this point in the case I cannot hold that from the circumstances proved by the United States, uncontradicted and unexplained, a reasonable man might not draw the inference of knowledge of the scheme and participation in it by each defendant. As to the scheme itself, it does not seem open to serious debate that at this point in the case the question of fraudulent character is clearly one for the jury." In nonjudicial terms, the Judge meant that Samuel Insull and his co-defendants might...
Ditched by George Creel, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
...putting much faith in a trial in Switzerland. The Protocols were effectively disposed of as fraudulent long ago, notably by the London Times in 1921, and by the Soviet Government which outlawed them in 1917. Based on old-wives' tales current three centuries ago, they have been shown to draw most heavily upon two obscure books of the mid-19th Century. First of these, published in Brussels in 1865, was a political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which...
...years Herb Williams has made vaudeville audiences scream with delight by his quavering plea of "Spotlight!" from a dark stage. Sometimes billed as "The Bulgarian Military Pianist," he used to rummage for a ham sandwich under his piano lid, draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot beneath the keyboard. His comedy was generally of the tear-the-place-to-pieces variety...