Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisiana, New Deal Senator John H. Overton was renominated and all seven representatives except one, who faced a runoff...
...Michigan, Republicans, in numbers far greater (3 to 2) than the Democratic primary voters, chose Frank D. Fitzgerald to run in November against Governor Frank Murphy, who ousted Mr. Fitzgerald in 1936. No Senator was involved: all incumbent Representatives (eight Democrats, nine Republicans) were renominated except Democrat George Sadowski who lost to Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz of Hamtramck...
...mayor of New York City, better paid ($22,500) than any public executive except the President of the U. S. ($75,000) and the Governor of New York ($25,000), actively governs 7,000,000 people, has the third toughest elective job in the nation. Above it in difficulty, short of the Presidency, only the Governorship of New York is supposed to rank. But other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York...
...planned a $1,500,000 factory with electric ovens and a model town for 600 Wedgwood employes and anyone else who cares to live there. Including the new plant, Wedgwood's assets total some $2,500,000. Profit is a secret, but dividends have been paid every year except 1929-33 since the company's founding...
Stuck away in Manhattan's drowsing East 27th Street is an old, cuckoo-clock, three-story building. Once it was a haunted private house, later, among other things, a Knights of Columbus hall, an Armenian church. Since 1915 it has been a theatre, since 1923 (except for one season) a free...