Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double-barreled reply: 1) Secretary Steve Early announced that the President had privately predicted a Smith victory by 40,000 votes, 2) the press was given for direct quotation a one-sentence sample of sententious Presidential philosophy: "It takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...
...downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district was absolutely unprecedented. It was likewise unprecedented in the 50 other U. S. neighborhoods where, during the past two years, the same thing has happened...
Last week in Cincinnati a glass-topped metal casket was on view. Flower sprays were banked by the coffin. Nearby was an oil painting of the deceased. In two days 1,000 mourners filed silently past. The deceased: King, a German shepherd, one of the two first guide dogs in the city. Reason for the fuss: King had been poisoned. Such a wave of sympathy followed King's death that Cincinnatians saw hope for a $10,000 farm where guide dogs could be trained (as at The Seeing Eye, Morristown, N. J.) to lead Cincinnati's 550 blind...