Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood all studios except Twentieth Century-Fox stopped work to fight the water. Victor McLaglen suffered a $20,000 loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew...
Governments do not make it easy to arrive at such figures, and some of them deliberately lie, but experts of the League of Nations think their researches, costing thousands of dollars yearly, have produced figures worthy of some credence, except in the case of Germany where no figures have been released. Using the League's figures for the other Great Powers, and taking for the Reich 1936 estimates which the British Statesman's Year-Book presents, the latest statistics show total expenditures in 1937 by each of the Great Powers such that per capita...
...conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system is "obviously discriminatory" against those put up by petition, since such nominees appear to be "self-seekers...
Practically all automobile makers except Henry Ford belong to the A. M. A., and Ford Motor Co. almost always holds aloof from cooperation with the rest of the industry in any national enterprise. A. M. A. President Macauley was therefore greatly surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means...
...more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked an ox, lashed them into...