Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former pollywog members of the President's party have all survived [their Equator-crossing initiation], but while they are recuperating, this dispatch is being sent not by Mr. [Secretary Steve] Early but by the Senior Shellback himself...
Said Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt: "It must ... be pleasant to feel that in the future this place will be 'heaven' to some people, even if it cannot be to its former owner...
Jockeying. Around Happy and his wife in the State government at Frankfort are a hard-hitting group of officials of their own age. Lieutenant Governor (next year's candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine...
Transradio President Herbert Samuel Moore, 33, had reason to be pleased. Four years ago, former U. P. Correspondent Moore found himself jobless when Columbia Broadcasting System abandoned its news service to join National Broadcasting Co. in the Press-Radio Agreement which limited news broadcasts to twice-daily, five-minute summaries supplied by Associated Press, United Press and Inter national News Service. Moore, deciding to buck this restriction, got financial backing, started Transradio as an independent service with no publishing or broadcasting affiliations. "We are fighting for freedom of the press of the air," he announced...
...London, a brilliant young U. S. scientist is searching for a vanished physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real name is MacMichael, that he lives in a Mojave Desert hideout called Barstow...