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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has conducted herself as 'First Lady?' " Her husband was approved by 58% of the voters in a recent Gallup poll (and by 62% of the major party voters in the 1936 election). Mrs. Roosevelt won approval from 67%. Unlike her husband she got a majority of favorable votes in the upper income group...
...whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger boy, dam-laborer, miner; after he became Prime Minister, other things shook New Zealand besides earthquakes...
Victim of "one of those goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
...foot three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story to the press...
...Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello did not mind. He asked the Captain to marry him to Nurse Husby...