Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whooping South Carolinians gathered on the bare grounds of The Citadel, State military college at Charleston. "I am glad to find on the South Atlantic Coast evidences of what I saw on my trip across the country. . . . Yes. we are on the way back-not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently...
...corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent plan for American agriculture...
...mere fact that Stahley and Harlow are working in harmony bids fair to speed the Varsity work in future years. Amazing as it may seem, under Eddie Casoy the Varsity and the Freshmen were taught two completely different styles of play, while the Jayvees had their own pet little systems on another lot. This ridiculous system led to the existence of a supreme confusion at Soldiers Field and necessitated complete drill is new systems of play with every promotion. But now this mess has been cleared away and for the first time since the days of Percy Haughton unity...
Robert Benchley as an inebriated traveller is so pleasantly silly that he almost walks off with the movie. He has never been funnier and contributes just the touch needed to make China Seas a swell show instead of a mere tour do force in melodrama...
...place Peter F. Tague was yesterday sworn into office as Boston's new Postmaster. Equally with reason. He had been the election commissioner of Boston, which surely is a far better qualification for the postmastership than a mere thirty-seven years in the postal service, after all, a postmaster in these days when wishes are Farleys, and beggars may ride, has important responsibilities besides the prosaic work of delivering the mails. Mr. Tague had shown, both as Congressman and as Election Commissioner, that he could admirably fulfill all demands made by the New Deal upon its officials...