Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National...
Frank Andrew Parker, 17, has been the prodigy of U. S. tennis almost as long as Vincent Richards was. He still emphasizes his youth with peculiar baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when...
...collection, sold the portrait to New Orleans Stockbroker Simon J. Shwartz. In 1926 he smilingly turned down an offer of $5,000. Hit by Depression, he later offered Queen Marie for $1,000, found no takers. Last week the Louisiana Historical Society bought the portrait for $126, to hang in the Society's collection in the Cabildo on Jackson Square. Through New Orleans, where "Marie Leveau charms" are still sold by obscure druggists and necromancers, rose last week a babble of amazing tales about Marie Leveau's strange power over 19th Century New Orleans...
...return to Hyde Park the President began sitting for his official portrait. The artist: Ellen G. Emmet Rand of Salisbury, Conn, whose portraits of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the late Storekeeper Benjamin Altman hang in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under Tyrant Machado made the greatest sacrifice, cut her production by 60%, but the ensuing rise in sugar prices did not begin to compensate. Cuba's future appeared to hang on negotiations into which Ambassador Welles plunged last week, to permit enough Cuban sugar to enter the U.S. at "Roosevelt prices" to restore living wages among the island's cane cultivators and thus prop up politically the new Government of President de Cespedes. Under no illusions last week...