Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, it is a mistake to call English 5 simply "an advanced composition course." To participate in its activities one must be not only able to write moderately well, but one must also be a philosopher, an historian, a critic, poet, sociologist, and politician, all in one English 5 transcends any limits that the word "composition" may try to put on it, and furnishes real food for thought, which, when digested, frequently re-appears on paper...
Died. Desha Breckinridge, 67, Kentucky sportsman, politician, longtime editor-publisher of the Lexington Herald; in Lexington...
...Wartime Quartermaster General, now a mail-order magnate. Before the Republicans could discharge the full weight of their artillery against the political implication of giving the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he feels like, Franklin Roosevelt let it be announced that not a politician but a businessman was going to have the chief say in allotting the $4,000,000,000 for work relief-General Wood, chief consultant and adviser on spending...
Eagle's troubles took on the quality of slapstick when at the same time Eagle workmen in the State of Veracruz presented the greediest set of labor demands in world history. Plainly hatched in the baroque imagination of some Mexico City politician, they threatened a strike unless Eagle gave its workers: 1) a 25% cut of the profits; 2) a workers' polo field and a stable of polo ponies; 3) an 18-hole golf course; 4) a swimming pool and complete athletic equipment; 5) a technical school; 6) a share in the management; 7) annual free round-trips...
...married to a doctor, Mrs. Ayer has two children by a previous marriage to a Tammany politician named McDougald. Son Cornelius is in Fordham Law School. Daughter Elizabeth, graduated from Hunter College, is doing social service work. With them she has traveled over most" of the U. S. and three years ago Cornelius indulged his mother's liking for motoring and track athletics by driving her to Los Angeles for the Olympic games...