Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously as some do their horseracing, next Saturday's political handicap in Kentucky ranks in national news-interest with the Derby at Churchill Downs. Of all 32 Senatorial primaries this year, Kentucky's Democratic race is the most significant and most colorful-significant because, in the person of his Majority Leader of the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt himself is in effect running to avert a rebuff to his New Deal; colorful because Senator Barkley's challenger is a brassy colt who, on sheer political form, could win in a walk if this were not a Roosevelt Handicap...
...Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They...
Army Commander-in-Chief Adolf Hitler made public on the day of the market break a decree providing in detail for army billeting and requisitions in Germany in case of war. "The common weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot...
Said gracious Miss Roche, elaborating on her February report: "Fifty million Americans are in families receiving less than $1,000 a year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication...
...keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...