Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written orders to come early and stay to the bitter end, the faithful began to arrive in free busses by 8 p. m. They filed into the armory to face a banner as big as a barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned...
...Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker, she hurled a handful of pepper into Mr. Hays's face (see cut, p. 20). "You lie, goddam you," she shouted into the microphone and fled before anyone could stop...
...disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost the only woman who does not know Mussolini's face." Pauly apologized, said she didn't know much about politicians. "Brava! Brava!" exclaimed II Duce, "that is a true woman. Women should not bother themselves with politics; their business is in the home...
Harassed by the same swelling costs and shrinking revenues which face most U. S. roads, the Erie last month petitioned RFC for a loan of $6,006,000. Last week- though RFC was on record as willing to lend money on any "reasonable" railroad request and though it agreed to lend $8.000,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio after only a week's thought (TIME, Jan. 10)- it refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest...
...face of it. C. & O's explanation for refusing to aid the Erie meant either that the road did not care to throw any more money after the $45.000.000 it already has tied up in Erie securities, or dreaded stockholders' suits if it did. President Roosevelt in press conference took occasion to criticize the C. & O. stand. Jesse Jones, eying C. & O. and its holding company, Alleghany Corp.. with the suspicion that Van Sweringen holding companies have often merited in the past, had two other explanations to offer. Said he first: "The only thing I can assume...