Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andrews Up. The Air Corps felt as flattered as the man last week when Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, for four years chief of G. H. Q. Air Force, was named Assistant Chief of Staff of the whole Army, in charge of Operations & Training, first flying general ever attached to the General Staff...
Attorney General Frank Murphy's right arm reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months...
...professed Third Termite: Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City...
Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...