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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into the locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan tribute to Cordell Hull: "The good neighbor policy has been made a realistic policy instead of a phrase to catch the imagination...
...shining community creamery, schools, hospital and recreation centre, individualistic Walter Pippel journeyed to Anchorage and other railroad towns to hawk it himself. When at length the colony's managers, Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., reminded Colonist Pippel that he had contracted to use the co-operative and pay a 5% charge for its services, Mr. Pippel blew up. He said that in two years he had made $11,000 by his own hard work, had no intention of disgorging $550. Rather than pay up, he prepared to go to court to assert his independence...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...country. Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet Inönü, the ghazi's successor, get the best possible education; support the Society for Promulgation...
...fortnight or more Lindbergh-haters had been putting the heat on T. W. A. Letters and wires poured in; Manhattan's Daily Worker boomed the drive. Gossip columnists noted its progress. Result was that in the December Official Aviation Guide (in which the lines pay $15 a page for blurb and timetable space), nowhere in T. W. A.'s eleven pages could the name of Lindbergh be found. The Transcontinental route Lindbergh charted ten years ago is now "The Sunny Santa Fe Trail," and the credit line reads: "Nature made...