Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep...
Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath."
FRANCIS J. DAILY
Day after this rebuttal of rumors, Franklin Roosevelt faced his regular circle of newshawks. Up piped one of the President's favorite interrogators, slim boyish-looking Francis Marion ("Little Stevie") Stephenson, Associated Press correspondent at the White House: "Mr. President, there have been reports that you are in a...
Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury...