Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negligence in reporting the National Conference on Slum Clearance which was held in Cleveland, Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7-the first convention of its kind- and which brought together 420 of the nation's foremost housing experts, city planners, and social workers, from 34 key cities of the country. Out here in the provinces, we thought this quite a TIME-worthy event, and our citizen committee which arranged the conference under the auspices of the city government was disappointed not to make the grade. CLAYTON GRANDY...
...personal deposit with the Bank of England of 500,000 gold dollars. Senora Elvira Machado -estranged from her husband for the past five years-was escorted with other members of the fallen Dictator's family to his gunboat-yacht, the Juan B. Zayas, which carried them safely to Key West...
Most Cubans were abed when at 1:35 a. m. the U. S. destroyers Claxton and Taylor nosed discreetly into Havana harbor. They had dashed over from Key West. From Balboa the destroyers Sturtevant and Overton steamed full speed for Cuba and the U. S. Navy Department announced that eight more destroyers and two cruisers were ready to follow. Of these the largest was the brand new cruiser Indianapolis mounting 8-in. guns, on which President Roosevelt cruised last month...
...climaxed by the National Recovery Act. Not only has he bound the people to his support but even the recalcitrant press. The New York Herald-Tribune, which last fall was accustomed to give Hoover's unimportant speeches five-column headlines and deliberately under-rate one of Roosevelt's key messages, now tucks away in an unimportant position, accusations of some merit against the administration coming from Representative Bnell (R.) Undoubtedly the President has realized what a tremendous asset the press can be and has organized and directed his publicity better than any man who ever occupied the White House. Four...
...Leaving Buckingham Palace after a late chat with George V last week, lean, purposeful U. S. Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...