Word: pres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributing plants throughout the city, was making backpage news on the ground that the firm had refused to sell small ice peddlers short lots. Next day Rubel Ice Corp. was on Page 1 of every paper in the land, and Commissioner O'Ryan had received a most unwelcome birthday pres...
Alexander had right royal reasons for resisting pressure to recognize the Bolsheviks. The best and some of the most loyal troops in his army are refugee White Russians. But over the weekend France, new ally of Soviet Russia, added her pres sure and Jugoslav Foreign Minister Boske Jeftich declared in Paris, "My country will recognize Soviet Russia as soon as I get home...
...proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen of the Pres- (1928) were Broadway successes which paved his way to the role of a bemused cinema director in Once In a Lifetime. The part of Officer Meshbesher in Face the Music followed. As amusing off stage as on, Hugh O'Connell has a little dog whom he named "Kiki" before...
...earnest. He adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President...
...March 25 Pres. Henry S. Coffin...