Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...heat. When he left his air-cooled railroad car at Glasgow, Mont, to drive 30 dusty miles to the Fort Peck Dam and address 10,000 people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet...
...Deal spending: the $31,000,000 hydroelectric and navigation dam at Bonneville on the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam-minded...
Quick-witted and self-possessed, Premier Okada let the newshawks peck him with impromptu questions about the issue closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...
...overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior, Gustav Peck, was called in to allege in efficiency. Peck said Donovan was A. W. O. L. two days-last October! . . . His 'insubordination' was refusal to remove his delegation until another appointment was made. . . . Several of General Johnson's subordinates have been trying to 'get' President Donovan...