Word: first
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Nov. 20, p. 15, under "Off-year election oddities" the first paragraph states...
...Authorized Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones to open a $10,000,000 credit for Finland through the Export-Import Bank and RFC. With this first material U. S. aid, the Finns may buy "agricultural surpluses and other civilian supplies...
...others' feet. In Iowa he denounced corn loans the day the Agriculture Department unloosed $70,000,000 in corn loans to Iowa; in Kansas City he crossed a year-old A. F. of L. picket line for no good reason; in Texas he shot his first deer, his first turkey, was photographed in business suit and starched collar gingerly holding the dead bird-a picture that brought a wave of nostalgic memories to Calvin Coolidge connoisseurs...
...governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been the President...
...Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective in a role with no lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...