Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having made a study of the weather records of Liberia since I came here Jan. 1 to do some educational work, I have found that the records show up the climate as quite livable. Since my own arrival, the highest temperature has been 84°. At night it falls frequently to the point where comfort demands bedcovers...
Soon after onetime AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, on a newshawk's tip, began to evolve the Soil Conservation Act as a substitute for unconstitutional AAA (TIME, Jan. 27), President Roosevelt gratefully sent him to Europe to look for possible U. S. grain markets. Said Mr. Davis then: "My job will be to size up in a realistic way just what the prospects are for American farmers to sell more of their goods." Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: "There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important...
...eight years before Cubans got sufficiently agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President...
...liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced, bumptious person of Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, famed Texas evangelist who is nominal pastor of 12,000 Baptists in Fort Worth, actual shepherd of a flock of 5,000 in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 14, 1935). Baptist Norris got his Fort Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed himself with a badge reading "Messenger" and for the first time in years was an active member of a Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest...
...Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara...