Word: happier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone Representative-at-large, succeeding Lewis Williams Douglas, now Director of the Budget. So great is her personal popularity that she defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...after the revolt and Dr. Cespedes was born in New York just 62 years ago last week. Popular in Washington from 1914 to 1922 as Minister of Cuba, he knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt well as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In 1925 during President Machado's first (and happier) term, Dr. Cespedes served briefly as Cuban Secretary of State, resigned for private reasons. Though a member of the Machado Liberal Party he was acceptable to all Cuban groups last week chiefly because in recent years he has held rigorously aloof from Cuban politics...
...Scarcely happier was silver Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, the U. S. Delegate who went to the Conference to urge stabilization of the world's currencies on a bimetallic basis of 20% silver and 80% gold. Evidently nettled by President Roosevelt's refusal to stabilize the dollar now on any basis, Senator Pittman said last week: "The world should either adopt a system of managed currencies or return to a metallic basis. Personally I do not believe we have reached the stage where we can have managed currencies. It comes down to a question of whether we have...
Almost all the events that occur in the life of Jimmy Dolan could happen only in the movies. This is the strength of the picture. If Hollywood producers could practice their faith in the axioms which Jimmy Dolan's doings demonstrate, they would be far happier about their ledgers. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gives an intelligent performance and manages to make his fisticuffs seem lively. I Loved You Wednesday (Fox) is the account of one exciting evening in the career of an indecisive danseuse named Vicki Meredith (Elissa Landi). At the beginning of the evening she is planning to elope...
Authoress Jameson is not one who enjoys writing. Says she: "I would rather not write at all than write as I do, to live. . . . I am not what you call a born writer, and I should have been much happier as an engineer. . . . Each book now represents so many months of hard bitter effort and no moments of satisfaction." But she despises writers (especially popular ones) who have no social conscience or are deliberately sentimental: "Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions...