Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
...preached to the sourdoughs in Cy Marx's Fairbanks saloon. Marx, a Jew, started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...
...Conferred with Secretary of Interior Ickes on the hot oil problem of the Southwest, repeated his warning of last July that, unless the States collaborate effectively, Federal regulation was the only alternative...
...history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese families, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when its heroine, ten-year-old Mulan, is kidnapped by soldiers, to New Year's, 1938, when she joins the epic flight of 40,000,000 high-spirited refugees into China's vast interior...
...cave's entrance resembled a monstrous mouth. Foul, fishy smells oozed from its eerie, greenish interior. Faint scrapings, squeals, slimy drippings could be heard far down in its inky bowels. Author Sanderson went cautiously inside. Clusters of giant grey bats whirred out of potholes. Crabs the size of footballs, their eyes bugging like periscopes, squatted on the floor, waved huge pincers, hissed like snakes. A luminescent lizard slithered into a dark crevice. An enormous red rat nudged his foot. Giant spider-centipedes scuttled across his hands. Blood-sucking vampire bats gnashed from black ledges...