Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHARLES M. HUDSON, JR. Easton...
...trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid...
...Francisco Bay. Few minutes later, to the jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior at 10:30 p. m. by the sun itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair...
...Mused Mrs. Whalen, previewing Treasure Island three weeks ago: "I'm afraid that this is really a very beautiful fair...
...seemed not only a reasonable but a necessary one. The French Government is anxious to get the 380,000 Spanish refugees now in France back into Spain. Moreover, wholesale executions and arrests following a surrender arranged by the French and British Governments might be embarrassing to Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier at home...