Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monroe. It's in the proper spot at Ash Lawn, Monroe's old home, next door to Jefferson's beloved Monticello at Charlottesville. Va. Every one should see this statue; it's an inspiration and more beautifully placed than any of the Piccirilli works you mention. It's at home -in the midst of Monroe's own beautiful boxwood garden...
...Browder claimed for U. S. Communists a rising influence even in the party of Herbert Hoover, not to mention that of President Roosevelt. No Moscow comrade snickered when he said: "The American Communist Party is reaching not only the proletarians but also the intelligentsia, farmers and professional classes and is penetrating even the framework of the two old parties." All of this, according to No. 1 U. S. Red Browder, has been accomplished by Communists claimed to total 30,000 in the U. S. and to be only 60% foreign-born today, whereas...
...trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event of her life. Mrs. Whitaker entered the ballroom, "closed our eyes and breathed a prayer: 'Please, God, don't let anyone mention chickens or the price of eggs!'. . . Then someone asked us for a dance . . . quite tall and homely handsome. . . . He danced divinely. . . . Then he spoke: 'How's the chicken business...
...with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even in the act of putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi...
...very large estates would produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled out by the President for special mention last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape...