Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of New York.* To the tune of "In Old Shanty Town," 1.200 diners serenaded Boss John Francis Curry thus...
...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
...Brien's not a stop-gap for any Mayor. There'll be general acclaim for my re-election next November...
...experiment (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927). The present Russian effort is to produce creatures who, like mules and catalos (cattle-buffalo), are more primitive than their primevally related parents. If by improbable chance any of the Ivanoff children are fertile, they may yield generations to visibly bridge the gap between...
...artists, the museum had acquired five canvases-Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius...