Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That's fun...
...Fun it was for Governor White last week to do something that to other Depression-ridden Governors sounded like pure quixotry. Thanks to plentiful Federal grants for public works and a 2% sales tax inherited from his budget-balancing predecessor, Sennett ("Mike") Conners, Governor White boasts a $5,000.000 surplus in his State treasury. All homesteads valued at less than $2,500 are currently exempt from State taxes. In his opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from...
...police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...
Last week Photographer Edward Steichen, 58, admitted that lately it had been "a little difficult to get any fun out of advertising photography." Furthermore, there were things he wanted to do. First off, he was going to Yucatan to see if he could find out anything about the origins of Indian corn. Corn now seems to him the basis of North American civilization. Before he dies he wants to plot out and at least partially complete a vast photographic mural of America, beginning with astronomical photographs of the heavens, indented lower down with mountain ranges, cities, factories, then breaking...
...start this gloriously glamorous, lucidly alluring fun fest any time, preferably with the first installment...