Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
...serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon and so openly the words that may send to destruction the lives in their charge. They are earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...Fayetteville, Ark., Texas Christian, undefeated and untied last year, showed that they missed little Davey O'Brien-the one-man gang of 1938 (now playing professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles)-as they lost their opening Conference game to Arkansas...
...native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies, World War veterans, other hastily mobilized vigilantes...
...banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang from St. Louis...