Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks know what caw-vee-yah is?" "What?" some yokel would ask faintly. "Why that's fish eggs. That's what it is - fish eggs...
Since the New Deal came in, there have been three stages of relief. In the first stage (1933-34), Harold Ickes was the big fish with $3,300,000,000 to spend and lend for public works, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was a small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry...
...Relief Bill of 1936 will produce the fourth stage which is theoretically the same as the third stage but smaller in size. Yet last week when Senators began looking into the matter, it appeared that Administrator Hopkins was going to be the only fish left in the relief pond. Of the $1,425,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year all was allotted to him. Some $85,000,000 was set aside for rural rehabilitation, but the bill specified that Mr. Hopkins, not Dr. Tugwell, was to spend it. For Secretary Ickes and his Public Works there...
...centre of celebration last week was Memphis' Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis whites were celebrating the annual Cotton Carnival, Beale Street was having its own fiesta, crowning its own king and queen, parading its own elaborate floats. The king was Undertaker Eddie Hayes. Queen was Ethyl Venson, pretty young wife of a Negro dentist. Highest honors throughout the fiesta were paid to a portly old Negro who had motored from his home in Manhattan for the occasion. A great hero...
...Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...