Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west of San Antonio. He promptly got himself elected from that District in 1902 and so impressed himself upon his constituents that in 30 years he was never seriously opposed for the seat. Even when he ran for Vice President in 1932, Mr. Garner took the precaution of running again also for the House (again successfully...
Dodging the Lightning? John Garner has no great mind. He serves no great cause. His fundamental difference with Franklin Roosevelt is in the matter of property rights. "I had rather see my party wrecked," he says, "than to see my country ruined." Garner has appreciated property ever since he ran away from a home which had little, became a lawyer, married an heiress (Ettie Rheiner, his secretary ever since). Demons to him, as a Texas millionaire, are the multimillionaires of Wall Street. He is a Uvalde, Tex. banker tried & true (with mortgages on half the town) and therefore suspicious...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
When 56-year-old Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger stepped off a train in Wausau, Wis., he wore no hat or overcoat, sported white ducks and an old brown jacket, carried an umbrella, a knapsack on his back. Because it was -7°F., police promptly ran him in. Composer Grainger finally identified himself, explained that he dislikes heavy clothing, has not worn a hat in 20 years, carries the umbrella simply to keep snow out of his bushy hair...