Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressional elections, his group would undertake an expert survey of the electorate's real feeling and "mandate." This was in definite defiance of Franklin Roosevelt's comfortable theory that the 1938 election results were an agglomerate of local issues & personalities, not evidence of a national trend...
...candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark & Co., the public had to make out last week with some informative sideshows...
Planners. A real estate man named Joe Dixon (who got a season pass to the fair for his pains) started the whole show exactly six years ago with a letter to the San Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named...
...picture represented 55 solid balls of concrete pyramided above sandbags piled on a segment of sewer pipe. When a 1,200-pound dummy bomb (Germany has some real ones weighing 2,200 pounds) was dropped on this monument, the only thing which had to be replaced was Concrete, Ltd.'s concrete balls. Another picture showed upright tapered steel outhouses onto which a brick wall was toppled without so much as denting them. These shelters were labeled: ARP CONSOL-Suitable Shelter for Key Personnel. Non-key personnel are supposed to be hiding in cellars...
...orchids which she uses at the moment are false, but she gets real ones when on the stage...