Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final legislative quietus was put on the Townsend Plan when certain facts were pointed out to Southern Congressmen: if aged negro mammies and pappies drew $200 a month, none of their offspring would do a lick of work-the South would be ruined. Therefore no Southern Congressman need sign a petition to bring the Townsend Plan to the floor and if it were not brought to the floor no one need vote for it. Everyone breathed easier...
Later, politicians drew from General Hayashi the significant admission that, after the bribe receipt was found, nothing was done except to discipline a certain Major Tanaka, apparently because he blabbed the secret to members of the Young Officers League. These naive hotheads, not realizing that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...
...change did not please everyone, Many an artist grumbled at seeing his page cramped down to pint-size. One cartoonist was so upset he deliberately drew his characters humpbacked, explained he could not help it since the ceiling had been pushed down on them...
...bright young editor named Brisbane hired him for Pulitzer's New York World, where he did a Sunday page about "The Filipino & The Chick." When Hearst, the newcomer, began raiding Pulitzer's staff, Anderson joined the parade to higher wages, joined Hearst's Journal where he drew "Raffles & Bunny." Since then he has produced innumerable bits for newspapers and magazines, mostly without distinction until he hit upon Henry...
...PIPE DREAM OF PEACE - John W. Wheeler-Bennett - Morrow ($3). The author of The Wreck of Reparations calls his new book "The Story of the Collapse of Disarmament." A more serious and solemn discussion of the subject that Drew Pearson and Constantine Brown recently put into the wisecracks of The American Diplomatic Game...