Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escape from the yoke of Mexico. The idea spread like fire in the tinder of Texas' best advertising minds. . Governor Pat Neff issued a proclamation calling a Centennial meeting. Some 2,000 Texans came, a Centennial Board was set up. That advertising idea had played into unusual good luck. The original head of the Centennial Board, Cato Sells (Woodrow Wilson's Indian Commissioner) was succeeded by a gentleman named Jesse Jones. An election in 1932 made Jesse Jones and another Texan. John Nance Garner, men of importance in Washington. Therefore the U. S. dipped into its Treasury...
...Karol Niemira on the Batory "married" the Baltic and the Atlantic, committing technical bigamy in as much as Poles and Rumania's King Carol last year "married" the Baltic and the Black Seas in an identical ceremony. At Hoboken, Polish oldsters presented the Batory with bread (for good luck) and salt (for love). Polish-American moppets romped through traditional Polish rites, brought up spring branches, rye, oats, wheat, fruit and vegetables, danced the mazurka and krakowiak and sang The Green Grove...
...that same year miraculously returned alive to London. He had enlisted in 1914 as a British machine gunner and had gone to Belgium with England's first army. The Germans called this army "The Contemptibles," and practically annihilated it. Hall was an American Grinnell College Ph. D. to, but luck, not his citizenship or college, had kept him from dying in Flanders...
...declared one of Alf Landon's supporters, wise old William Allen White of Emporia last month. "Hearst is a hitch-hiker on the Landon bandwagon. Sooner or later Landon will have to throw him off or feel Hearst's gun in his ribs. For his own good luck-the sooner the better...
...best of luck to track team hayes and crawford lost schmidt hit by taxi green and manager bryant running two laps apiece love...