Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there in person to project ghostly slides of President Hoover on screens at each end of the hall. Senator Fess. again cackling with joy, produced a huge Hoover portrait and held it up over his head on the platform. One George English of Alexandria, Va., wearing a Delaware dele gate's badge and intoxicated with joy, went into action as floor cheerleader...
First setback to the Squires career was a royal commission appointed to investi gate the young Premier's acts in 1923 ? with the discreet result that he was permitted to retire from politics to his nourishing legal practice. In 1928 he came back, has been Premier ever since...
...minds of many there will be a strong suspicion that it was more than robbery. More probably it was premeditated dishonesty. Had Sharkey "won," there would now be little excuse for a third combat. As it is, the stage is set for another bout, to bring in gate receipts for the fighters, and lucre for any judges whom either manager may care to bribe. In athletics, too, New York seems to have "the best judges money can buy;" at best, they are unduly patriotic. If there were more Yankee triotic. If there were more Yankee shrewdness in the nation...
...slide for children was given to Fleishhacker Park. The Fleishhacker Swimming Pool (formerly known as the Municipal Swimming Pool) is not in Golden Gate Park as TIME stated but is over a mile away...
Regarding the "Keep Off the Grass" signs TIME mentioned-Mr. Fleishhacker did not have these removed from Golden Gate Park for the reason that they never existed due to such being an anathema to John MacLaren, who laid out the park and is still, at the age of 84, superintendent of parks. Mr. Herbert Fleishhacker should be commended for the gifts he has made but he should not be credited with large and expensive improvements built with taxpayers' money. In justice to the citizens of San Francisco, I sincerely hope you will print my letter...