Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before press conference the President arranged to have a written question submitted asking whether he agreed with U. S. Steel's Benjamin Franklin Fairless that steel prices could not be cut without cutting wages. The answer, written out, he read to reporters in the best Roosevelt manner, tossing his head from side to side, stopping once to point out how he used monosyllables so anyone could understand. Excerpts...
...Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from an office in the heart of Vienna. When Chancellor Schuschnigg read this in the papers he regretfully parted, with his life insurance, jailed Dr. Tavs...
...last week bustling little Sociology Professor Ernest Watson Burgess adjusted his spectacles and began to read a long, technical paper to his class at the University of Chicago. As the 51-year-old bachelor proceeded, his marriageable students became more and more attentive. When he finished, he had given them a test-proof formula for choosing a wife or husband, for predicting whether a marriage would be successful...
...mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers who can't read their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival meeting where Rocky Comfort gets religion and writhes on the floor like so many small boys trying to get as dirty as possible rolling...
...After earning $1,000,000 in seven years in insurance, Arnett retired, took up secret studies of archaeology, eugenics, Greek philosophy, medicine, law, agriculture, drainage, geology, manufacturing, commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death...