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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only about 150 acres of the President's hilly farm are cultivated and his barns and Negro shacks are only now being made less down-at-heel than those of his cracker neighbors. Largest crop this year was corn, with some 100 acres producing an average of 15 bu. per acre - not enough to justify an AAA corn contract...
Dear to venerable generals destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
...save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in which we are, I think, the largest shareholders, now with the oil used in her bombing airplanes! "I saw the Ethiopian Minister today, and it was a very pleasant conversation I had. These bombing airplanes are dropping bombs on women and children and an English company is supplying the oil!" In the Welsh gnat's audience...
...with working capital a thin $1,700,000, a year's deficit of $3,239,000. By Sept. 1, 1935, working capital was up to $10,600,000, thanks, in part, to a $6,000,000 loan from the New York and Chicago Federal Reserve Banks. Hudson, largest of the independents, sold 300,000 cars in 1929, dropped to 38,000 in 1933. Sales for the first nine months of this year came to 56,676 cars, mostly Terraplanes, and Hudson may make a small 1935 profit...
First across the line was a portrait by Hans Schlereth of Washington, D.C. Largest portrait was a slick study by Howard Chandler Christy. Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...