Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mudd's pardon was signed by President Andrew Jackson as you state on p. 57 of your issue of Feb. 24, it must have been done on a ouija board. Don't you mean President Andrew Johnson...
...Roosevelt, for six months (until after NRA and AAA) a friend of the New Deal. Last week Publisher Gannett, sunning himself in Miami, was glad to run as second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public office, and I prefer to devote myself to my newspapers. . . . However, such a grave crisis confronts the nation that all who believe in our precious institutions . . . must be ready to make many sacrifices. ... If the Republicans will nominate Senator Borah...
...bought a third from Duveen Bros., Inc. and called it "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum." Asked the price of this jewel, the Museum's Director Herbert Eustis Winlock replied, "We never talk prices. They don't mean anything." A good guess...
...looks very much like him. When the Indians suspected we intended to take Paul away they threatened us with poisonous spears and arrows and on Paul's advice we withdrew . . . with the intention of returning. It must be realized that any rescue must mean the use of force with probable death of Redfern...
...through a custard-pie cinecomedy "but God Al mighty it didn't seem funny to me and I sat in the darkness trying to laugh, but I kept thinking, 'Why are they wasting everything, why are they making all these mistakes, why is everybody so awkward and mean, what is the God damn meaning of this stuff...