Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers to Portland under Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Fleet...
Last week Job No. 2 had New York's political pot hubble-bubbling with newsy excitement. Election Day was only ten weeks off. In primaries Sept. 20 Republicans and Democrats will pick delegates to their respective State conventions at which nominations will be made. Inspired by the possibility of a serious split between Governor Roosevelt and Tammany Hall which might cost the Democratic nominee the State and perhaps the Presidency, a profusion of Republican candidates blossomed in the gubernatorial garden. The State had been in Democratic hands for nearly ten years but now there seemed to be a good chance...
Biggest coffee pot in the world is the U. S. coffee pot. Into its cavernous maw is dumped nearly half the world's total average annual production of 250,000,000 bags. About half is poured in from cans and packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year?one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild...
...Chinese pot that has been boiling ominously since the Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China...
...Louisiana's self-styled political "kingfish," Senator Huey Pierce Long. Conspicuously absent were officials of Tulane University, who thought Senator Long was meddling with medical education for political reasons, that nearby L. S. U. was a trespasser in New Orleans. Last week Louisiana's simmering medical pot boiled over...