Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandalous lies that his kinky hair and heavy features were signs of Negro blood, that the 350-acre farm to which he frequently retires with his vivacious, red-headed wife, is only a device to gain agrarian support. He drives an Auburn, golfs in the 90's, goes duck-hunting. Impressed by his vigorous campaign and easy victory, Presidential supporters of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon promptly boomed Nominee Brooks for keynoter at the Republican National Convention...
...equally important Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co., known throughout Central Europe as "Phönix-Wien." Founded in 1882, it established branches throughout the empire, grew prosperous. The break-up of the old Austrian empire did not seem to affect it. Phönix-Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...
...church" was not downed by a request for an ordination certificate for "Rev. Drake Googoo," a "Persian clairvoyant with some stage experience." The certificate was procured for $10, and the Ministerial Association made front pages by revealing that ''Rev. Drake Googoo" was Funnyman Joe Penner's duck...
...Author was born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...
Mickey Mouse, the Big Bad Wolf, the Horse-Goof, and Donald Duck have a most sensational polo game with Chico Marx, Charles Chaplin, and Laurel and Hardy. Fox Movietone News appears again with its many neat categories, and at 12:30 every day there is to be heard Tachaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Symphony Pathetique...