Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those who went to Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship and poverty." Then he quickly swung into his favorite economic theme-the wealth of the rich, the poverty of the poor. "The great middle class," he shouted, "is threatened with bankruptcy and extermination." He gave his audience...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...downs together is familiar but ingratiating. It has to do with two airplane gunners?Clark Gable and Wallace Beery?who snarl at each other through most of the picture. Beery plays a dirty trick on Gable which causes trouble between Gable and his girl. Beery's girl tries to patch it up, succeeds in making Beery try to say "I'm sorry," with the shamefaced expression at which he is adept. Later Beery has an even better chance to make up to Gable. He rescues him from drowning, flies him back to the Saratoga, wrecks the plane and kills himself...
...frog in my fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft...
...west; on the genesis of libraries and statuary; on famed and philanthropic gentlemen who prophesied with money. Even Chicago's Negroes, living in dark solidity in the Black Belt, are not so bad as they used to be: "This migrant from the plantation or the city 'patch' has banks crammed, in normal times, with his savings and his investments. He has his own insurance companies, contracting builders, brokers, merchants, and real estate dealers. . . . The Negro here, as everywhere, is a great organizer...