Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion ... is that people do not like business depressions.... The new Congressmen will probably be correct in concluding that they have a mandate from the people to ... bring about a greater income for farmers. . . . Here they come, fresh from the people...
...Many used to sneer that the adopted-daughter system was Atatürk's method of keeping a harem after he had abolished outright polygamy. Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...
...before the cameras, it has been written four times; by Hitchcock himself, by Hitchcock and a scenario writer, by Hitchcock and a dialogue writer and finally by Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville. Once work begins on the set, it progresses rapidly. Because Hitchcock considers it unnecessary to ex plain to them anything except the scene with which they are specifically concerned, his actors are often as baffled by what is going on as audiences will be later...
Ralph A. Anderson, Prescott, Ariz., John W. Armstrong, Jr., Berwick, Mc., Thomas P. Barnefield, Pawtucket, R. I., John M. Barter, Beverly, Mass., Howard C. Bennett Jr., Fort Edward, N. Y., Robert C. Berman, Brighton, Mass., Everett F. Bleller, Jamaica Plain, Mass., William J. Bobear, Upper Darby, Pa., Thorwill Prehmer, Montclair, N. J., Charles S. Bridge, Franklin, Ohio, Robert B. Broadwater, Oakland, Calif., James G. Cate, Watertown, Mass., Arsen E. Charles, South Braintree, Mass., Allen R. Clark, Calais, Mc., Louis M. Clay, Milton, Mass., William M. Couch Jr., Platte City, Mo., David W. Dean, Chicago, Ill., Hollis C. Dennen, Waltham, Mass...
Readers who liked Clarence Day's Life With Father and other such recent memoirs should be glad to meet Bertha Damon's Grandmother Griswold. Author Damon was brought up by her grandmother in a small Connecticut town according to the gospel of Thoreau. Plain living in the vegetarian Griswold household never quite achieved Thoreau's budget of 27? a week. But to little Bertha it seemed a narrow miss...