Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city, forcing business men and bankers to be handicapped by their scarcity. (R. P. I. students collected 250,000.) Second, flood the town with pennies by paying 25 per cent of all bills in pennies, the 25 per cent representing the estimated hidden tax in every item purchased. Follow this picture-and-paragraph story of the TaxCENTinels...
Whenever weary Congress adjourns, most of its members will hotfoot for home not only for vacation but also to stump their bailiwicks for reelection. With Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt as vocal as ever, wives of Congressmen have apparently begun to feel they should follow her example. This week, despite elaborate attempts at secrecy, it leaked out that a number of them have been taking elocution lessons so they will be ready when asked to say a few words "back home." Conducted by Mrs. Hugh Butler, long a teacher of public speaking at George Washington University, the classes have been held weekly...
Last week it was evident that Dictator Metaxas' supply of "Reds" had not given out. On one day, it was announced, 76 "Communist" agitators-75 men, one woman-were arrested and that further arrests were to follow. Among those detained were some members of the former, now defunct, Greek Parliament in which there were only 15 Communists. Before courts-martial the "Reds" were sentenced to terms of from four to six years. They will probably join some 2,000 other "comrades" being held on barren islands in the Aegean Sea by Dictator Metaxas...
...that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when he became a famous interior decorator. Conveniently for the story, both sons (who also become friends) follow the course laid down for them. Oliver Essex, a beautiful, spoiled child, grows into a handsome snob, treats his doting father like dirt. In spite of that, Essex continues to pamper him. But when Oliver, at 18, wants (and gets) one thing his father never had-a sophisticated beauty named...
...string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...