Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce were placidity itself. The Mississippi flood of 1927 furnished the immediate drama necessary to begin Hooverizing for the Republican nomination. So easily were Hoover delegates to the Kansas City Convention rounded up that the slogan "Who But Hoover?'' became irresistible logic, vanquished the "allies" (Watson, Curtis, Lowden et al) before the voting began. The Secretary of Commerce was nominated on the first ballot...
...South Bend, Ind., Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C., just back in the Government's good graces after having branded Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy a hit-&-run driver (TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.), told the Knife & Fork Club; "When public opinion is aroused, Al Capone will go back to Italy-but I can't talk about Italy. God help anyone who gets in the way of public opinion, for I know." He then proceeded to explain how "any police force can clean any city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want...
...rushing to defend Scot MacDonald against the charge of deliberate perfidy his friends stubbed their toes upon these points: 1) the Passfield Declaration was issued just before the Indian Round Table Conference with its immense Mohammedan contingent convened in London (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.); 2) so long as the Conference sat, not all the Jews in Christendom could move Mr. MacDonald by their incessant pleas, threats, demands; 3) so soon as the Indian Conference adjourned and its Mohammedan members returned to India and reported favorably, just so soon did Scot MacDonald yield to the Jews...
...building trades when Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty discharged him from the Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently he has been at work investigating New York City Magistrates with the result that three have resigned (TIME, Aug. 25 et seq.). Altogether little Mr. Kresel has a great reputation for ferreting out evil. His present position, at the other end of an indictment, is a novelty...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Famed for his high stiff collars, his stuttering German comedy dialect, he had been on the stage for 62 years, in Friendly Enemies, The Man Who Stood Still (long run smash hits), The Second Fiddle, The Whirl of New York, Sins of the Children (cinema) et...