Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bremerton, Wash. (pop. 11,053) is notable for its thriving U. S. Navy Yard and for its mayor, who rivals his State's late Congressman Marion Anthony Zioncheck as a wagging political cap-&-bells. When bespectacled little Tailor Jesse A. Knabb lost a mayoralty election in 1933, he jumped off a Bremerton dock before a battery of newsreel cameras. When he won the next one in 1936, his behavior became even stranger. Up to last week eccentric Mayor Knabb had made news...
Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...history of any phase of government, there is only one survey course on Economic History, and the courses in the department of History are divided entirely on geographic lines--no place is there a history of such trends as Capitalism, Socialism, Representative Government, Nationalism,--or other institutions which pop up again and again in the history of each individual country and the study of which leads to an understanding of present economic and political problems...
...sixth the Blue put together two singles and a fielder's choice for a run, and in the ninth loaded the bases with two out. Here Healey ore down and forced Butler to pop to Grondahl for the final out. Thirty-two batters had faced him, five over par for the course...
Well-established favorite of the 300 pop-eyed entrants was Budweiser IV, descendant of Budweiser I, a 1932 champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world...