Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about his age, offers to beat any of his critics at tennis. His present status in Roosevelt strategy is precarious, more that of an old pensioner than a valuable lieutenant. When the President finally got around to endorsing him from the platform of his special train in California last month, Senator McAdoo, at his side, mopped his brow with obvious relief...
...deeds. Hanging in the air like a summer thunderstorm was the question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia's onetime Attorney General, now a Roosevelt-appointed U. S. District Attorney...
...have a perfect right to choose any candidate you wish. I do not seek to impair that right-but because Georgia has been good enough to call me her adopted son . . . I feel no hesitation in telling you what I would do if I could vote here next month...
Announced by young Mr. Hall was a Fort Wayne Housing Authority, with $1,500,000 capital put up by his own company, Lincoln National Bank and Trust and Fort Wayne National Bank, underwritten by the Federal Housing Administration. Next month F. W. H. A. will start buying idle outlying land from tax-ridden owners, paying them $1 a lot and giving them an option to repurchase at any time at the same price. The Authority will set up on the land four-room prefabricated houses which are to cost $900 apiece and rent to Fort Wayne's poor...
Richard Malone of Smithfield, Pa. received a letter last month identifying him as WPA Worker No. 4426-38632 and assigning him to work on a local road project. His parents, on relief, did nothing about it; obviously it was a clerical error. When Richard received another letter, firing him from the job for failure to report, his brother Albert, 20, went to WPA headquarters, explained that Richard, aged 7, was in the second grade. WPA headquarters then cut the Malone family off relief. At length Brother Albert got himself certified as the "priority worker" of the family and was awarded...