Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sedalia, Mo. Democrat & Capital: WANTED-RAIN Good drenching rain desired; showers accepted. Come on. rain! Badly needed to aid growing crops and harvesting, fill reservoirs and bring prosperity to Pettis County. To be delivered throughout entire Pettis County if possible between today and midnight. July 4, 1934. Thirteen merchants contributed to purchase the four-column display space. On July 4 rain fell...
...rocketed three Italian pursuit planes escorting two lumbering German airliners. Swooping down to a perfect landing the first German ship nosed up toward 220 gaudy Italian uniforms. A door popped open and Adolf Hitler sprang his little surprise. He stepped out not in Nazi uniform but wearing an old rain coat over a dark business suit and crushing in his left hand a rumpled brown hat. Click!-the heels of II Duce's black top boots snapped together and up went his arm in the Roman salute Nazis have borrowed. Up went Der Führers...
...rain coat standing beside their gorgeous Duce might be, shouted nothing but "Viva Mussolini!" Only a few German flags and a sprinkling of Nazi swastikas had been put up among the riot of Italian flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw...
...Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin Joe. Detectives: "Where is John?" Cousin Joe: "Haven't seen him for a year." In Indianapolis three men held up Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin, Howard, collected $5. When the drought in England became so severe that every church prayed for rain and London began talk of rationing its water, good Queen Mary decided
...Circulation Managers claims 570,000 under 18 years. The 1930 census showed 21,700 under 16 years. The National Child Labor Committee reckons 100,000 under 16, 50,000 under 14. The totals include not only the tattered urchin hawking his wares at street corners in sun or rain but also the well-fed youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper...