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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This added up to a greater sweep (81 seats in the House, eight in the Senate, eleven Governorships ) than Democrats executed in 1930 when they won 55 new seats in Congress preparatory to turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...
...food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known astronomer named Partridge. So, posing as Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer, he made some "Predictions for the Year 1708" which solemnly forecast the immediate demise of Astronomer Partridge in one of the greatest hoaxes of the time. He outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters" made him beloved of the Irish, which was ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness...
...doors of Manhattan's soot-flecked Grand Central Palace this week open on the 1939 version of the greatest annual U. S. fashion parade, The National Automobile Show...
Last week to the Philadelphia meeting of the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Association went Hitler's second choice: burly, brown-eyed Dr. Carl von Eicken, head of Berlin University's otolaryngology department. Dr. von Eicken, who said that the "greatest thrill" of his U. S. visit was a sight of the Statue of Liberty, spoke freely about his patient...
...last time Harvard won the Inter-collegiates was in 1931 when Penn Hallowell, one of the greatest of the long string of distance men Jaako has developed, was captain of the team. Best recent individual performance for the Crimson was Art Foote's fourth in the record-smashing 1932 event...