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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
...Woodstock, N. Y., the second of seven successive shows featured the Alaskan paintings, rich in reds and greens and snow whites, of Marianne Appel...
...with their grants, in each case 45% of the cost of the proposed new plants: Saranac Lake, N. Y., $225,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich., $218,000; Covington, Va., $181,636: Galax, Va., $129,000; Caruthersville, Mo., $79,000; Cleveland, Okla., $63,000; Okmulgee, Okla., $406,800; Columbus, Miss., $126,000 plus a loan of $155,000; Meridian, Miss., $638,182 plus a loan of $780,000; Cuero, Tex., $101,000: Gonzales, Tex., $78,000; San Antonio, Tex., $2,770,000; Texarkana, Tex., $245,000 plus a loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls...
Even in the depths of Repeal, canned Sterno and bay rum as thirst quenchers appealed to only a few U. S. citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...