Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the books offered by the publishers for Presidential reading: biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms...
...reclamation work Prince Caetani was prevented by ill health from making more than an inspiring start. Other Fascists have carried on and "The Battle of the Grain" has been won. No longer active, though the King had made him a Senator for life, Prince Gelasio set himself to write the I Documenti dell' Achivio Caetani, a history of his house for the last 1,100 years. Said he just before his death: "It seems I shall not live to finish it, but at least I have brought the history of our house down to the 16th Century...
...field operatives who report to 30 bureaus throughout the country. Their names are never known. But their bureau chiefs and inspectors must be known. Director Hoover has a teletype system to all bureau headquarters and D. O. I. men are encouraged to use the long distance telephone like grain speculators. Through this high-speed network Director Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From...
...door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly too hot for even sexational newspapers to handle, the letters described a physical attachment so feverish and inordinate that Edwards' father felt...
While the world's currencies were confounding the moneychangers of Europe last week (see above), the world's wheat was doing hardly less to the grain traders of three continents. Breaking over the Winnipeg market, a dark storm of selling tumbled the price 6¢ per bu. in two days. In Liverpool, Rotterdam and Buenos Aires wheat fell in confusion. In Chicago, no longer a world market, all contracts dropped below $1 for the first time since the Drought. Other commodities, notably rubber, joined the downward march...