Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's smart little ex-Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, wrote his second song in 25 years (the first: Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?). Excerpts from In Our Little Part of Town...
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...part this contrast may be due to screwy statistics (the production index is heavily weighted by certain industries), but in large part it represents technological improvements. For if improved machinery increases output per man, it is perfectly possible to have bigger production and bigger unemployment at the same time. Two examples of this can be found in two of the U. S.'s biggest employers: motors and steel. In 1937 motormakers bought connecting rod grinders that stepped up production from 250 to 850 units an hour, a machine for bending window-finish strips by which a five-man team...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
...with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week in Washington to the end. His extended portrait of Charles Sumner, for example, is masterly...