Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin and Minnesota there was violence last week. But it was fitful, sporadic violence. Milo Reno's great Corn Belt uprising was not rising "in full gear" as he had urged. Checks from the Agriculture Adjustment Administration were descending on the land in a gentle, pervasive rain, damping the prairie fire of farmers' anger. Hers and there law-abiding, patient farmers organized vigilance corps to deal with agitators.*The Corn Belt was quiet as into it came General Hugh Samuel Johnson to speak for the President...
...50th crossing of the Atlantic, she rolled up from Rio with 21 passengers including a 10-month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail (which now sports the Nazi swastika). Safe-playing Dr. Eckener knew the ship could not be docked in such a ground wind; rather than ride the night out at the mooring mast...
...plot: A real Baron Munchausen, sailing into New York Harbor, cannot appear because he has heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker-tape, as thousands cheer, the two impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting...
...CARNIVAL MURDER - Nicholas Brady-Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer...
...Johnny Donovan scouted on Saturday. The first-stringers went up to the balcony above the playing floor of the cage to get a bird's eye of the plays and passes they will have to stop this weekend. After that practice was moved to the outside field despite the rain. Choate and Walers were excused from practice, but the entire squad was reported as physically ready for action...