Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover has helped put the Nation's Capital on the front page, but how about Robert V. Fleming, a sand lot boy of the District that reached the top in the banking world, president of Washington's largest bank, also president of the American Bankers Association...
...Landon, as an experienced oilman and politician, felt pretty sure the nomination was there. He knew his field boss, John Hamilton, was a crackerjack and would make no mistakes. Whether it proved to be just an average political well or a magnificent gusher did not matter an awful lot. Main thing was to get into pay sand and bring it into actual production. Until that was done, Alf Landon knew it was unlucky as well as unwise to do much talking...
...even get time to get a drink of water any more," complained a clerk in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station information booth. Said a ticket agent in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal: "You see a lot of new faces now, and the trains are fuller...
...avoid annoyance by gapers and because the air of Palm Springs is often dusty, none of the desert scenes were shot at the resort but at an unfashionable hamlet called Palmdale, twelve miles away. Palm Springs' exteriors were built on the Paramount lot. Among the highly agreeable music interlarding this inoffensive picture is The Hills of Old Wyoming, which Wyoming's delegates to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions chose last week as their official song...
...Camden, N. J., Watchman John Bonitatibus came home to find a new billboard on the lot which his five children used as a playground. Irate John Bonitatibus smashed the billboard with an ax, hung U. S. flags on the wreckage, posted a placard: COMMISSIONERS- WE WANT A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND HERE, NOT BILLBOARDS. Next day, armed with a petition signed by the parents of 200 neighboring moppets, John Bonitatibus marched to City Hall, got the billboard removed...