Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip was the inaugural flight of The Mercury, first through transcontinental sleeplane. Flown by American Airlines once nightly in each direction with big new Douglas Sleeper transports, it makes the westbound journey in 17 hr., 41 min., the eastbound...
...nonpolitical" approach to Drought, Franklin Roosevelt's first fireside talk of 1936 took on some of the verve of his previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost the water in their well, lost their garden and come through to the end of the summer without one dollar of cash resources, facing...
...Chicago court record in which Illinois' Republican National Committeeman George F. Harding last July excused his absence from a hearing to the judge on the ground that it had been necessary for him to fly to California to talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which...
What happens in the woods and rivers during the journey, in the fort during the siege, and in the Huron camp after the fort has fallen, is a complicated triangular contest for life & death between three groups, representing three irreconcilable loyalties. Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon) and Colonel Munro are trying to beat the French; Magua (Bruce Cabot), renegade Huron scout, is trying to get himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture...
GREENGATES-R. C. Sherriff-Stokes ($2.50). Quiet English novel by the author of Journey's End, detailing the struggles of quiet Mr. Baldwin to readjust himself to life upon his retirement after 41 years in business...