Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman. A successful Hoosier whose business was farming, timber, coal, he was made a member of RFC's board in 1936. From handling RFC loans to needy drainage and irrigation districts he was graduated to manager of RFC's business loan program. On the side he ran Electric Home and Farm Authority (set up to finance the sale of electrical appliances to home owners). One of the most capable members of RFC, his selection was backed both by conservative Jesse Jones and by New Dealing Tommy Corcoran...
Three days later the gods ran out on her and, still keeping Harlem posted, saddened Miss Mercer had to write: "Prince Batoula was very disgusted with the cheap publicity. The papers in Paris carried the story and it has hurt him tremendously. I didn't know it meant so much to him. You know he has a certain standard to maintain here and now he has been completely ruined. He is not like the Americans. He can trace his ancestry back for 600 years. He has never been a slave and neither have any of his people...
...Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part...
...Geraci almost ran the ten blocks back home, to show her foot to her husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle...
...tall Thracian named Spartacus, 70 Roman gladiators ran off from their master one night in 73 B. C. Times were restless; a year later Spartacus had a guerrilla army of 100,000, armed with clubs, spears, the tridents of the gladiators' trade...