Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the resolutions of the convention were being read, came a dramatic pause. The resolutions chairman yielded his manuscript to burly, bull-voiced Frank McHale, original McNutt-for-President man, now Indiana's National Democratic Committeeman. Sonorously Mr. McHale intoned: "Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his State or his country. With him as the nominee for President of the United States our party can proceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected and that the best interests of the people will be served. Therefore, we, the Democratic...
...approved a fee of $32,000 for SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank for 3,830 hr. and 45 min. work done as counsel to a trustee in the Missouri Pacific R. R. reorganization between 1935 and 1937. During his MOP service, Frank also counseled Government agencies. Now working full time for SEC at $10,000 a year, he says Government salaries should not be commensurate with private fees because Government jobs bring "inner satisfaction," outer prestige...
...know any more than you do. I have never heard him mention it. He has never even hinted it." So said Frank lin Delano Roosevelt's well-schooled, 83-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, queried in Portland, Me. about her son's attitude toward a third time as President...
...Largo Caballero, miscalled the "Spanish Lenin," first Minister of Labor under the Republic, former president of the Bricklayers' Union, was Premier for eight months, then was rudely ousted and forgotten. Former newsboy, ex-publisher Socialist Indalecio Prieto, builder of the Leftist People's Army, writer of brutally frank war communiques, for a year Minister of Defense, took his marching papers after the disastrous Aragon defeat last spring...
Next day, on page three of Frank Brett Noyes's dignified Star appeared a three-column ad headed: TRUTH ALONG WITH SPEED. That picture "in an afternoon paper yesterday," the Star snorted, was not Hughes's plane in Minneapolis but Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Field before the takeoff. Proudly the Star reprinted its genuine shot of Hughes in Minneapolis...