Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt was photographed between two young Negro officers of the R.O.T.C. at Washington's Howard University. But in this year's primary fight, Demagogue Talmadge's fire has been directed at Roosevelt's wooing Negro votes far below the Mason-Dixon line. Moreover, for the first time in years, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, who walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia when a Negro pastor was called on to pray, last month managed to put some life into his traditional campaign plank: White Supremacy...
...Salzburg, military highways were being feverishly constructed, and the railway to Eisenstein on the Czech frontier was being double-tracked. General Göring bragged at Nürnberg that private industry on the Rhine was crippled, so heavily had he drafted workers to rush completion of the Siegfried line. Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were in feldgrau from the North Sea to the Danube. All men under 65 were forbidden...
...prompter at hearings, Tom Corcoran whisking through Capitol corridors to trade, purr, cajole, threaten or crack down for votes. Many a Congressman sensed that these high-powered lobbyists for the President had a low opinion of most U. S. politicians. More shocking to traditional statesmen-especially to old-line, locally intrenched Democrats-was the conception of a Liberal party which Corcoran & Cohen helped Client Roosevelt to rationalize...
...which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...revenue-like hopes for lower wage costs (see above)-are only details in the sorry railroad picture; last week bonded indebtedness still cast its shadow. Prime example of a railroad staggering under top-heavy debts is 111-year-old Baltimore & Ohio, fifth largest U. S. railroad (in revenue). The line has some $685,000,000 in fixed indebtedness, on which it has had to pay over $31,000,000 in interest annually. B. & O. lost $720,695 last year, $11,741,308 in the first half of this year. In January. B. & O.'s shrewd old President Daniel Willard...