Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire marched into the White House, invited President Hoover to dedicate next year a memorial at Franklin, N. H. to mark Daniel Webster's sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...year-old in 1927, Sun Beau won one race and lost three. There was nothing then to mark him as a good race horse nor was there the next year when he lost two-thirds of his 23 races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season...
Eruption. Only volcano in the continental U. S. is Mount Lassen, Calif. Its last real eruption occurred in 1914. But last week its crater was stuffed with smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and red fire which were set off before a large throng to simulate another eruption and mark the dedication of Lassen National Park. Chief speaker: Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames which burned him severely...
...Danat, shut its doors and begged for a six-month moratorium. Other banks suspended in Danzig and in Riga. The fire was coming dangerously close to France's allies in Central Europe: Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, who must be saved to preserve French military supremacy. Had France overstepped the mark by demanding, as the price of a further loan, political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet could accept and remain in power? The world press seemed definitely anti-French last week. French editors received a little of the scorn they have heaped on the U. S. these many years...