Word: recoverers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When the War began I was a lamplighter. Being also a Fleming I naturally took part in the Flemish independence movement. For this I was persecuted by the Government. I lost my job as lamplighter. ' Now I am only a common workman and work is scarce. My motive for firing...
In Chicago, trying to recover seized property, City Sealer Joe Grein was asked whether he had once run a saloon. Said he: "I once conducted a buffet." He was asked whether people rate the two identical. Said he: "Some people do, but not old Joe Grein."
That man is Alfred E. Smith. ... As Roosevelt generalizes, Smith is specific. As Roosevelt loves to delay, Smith loves action. Irresolution is ingrained in one; boldness in the other. ... In Franklin Roosevelt we have another Hoover. . . . The election of either Hoover or Roosevelt would be a blow from which this...
Means heard himself called a "slippery, slimy racketeer" in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, was found guilty of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in his fantastic plan to recover Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
In Coney Island, N. Y., an inquiring reporter of Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News received platitudinous replies to his question, "Have you ever known a person with a broken heart who failed to recover?" until he queried angry, baldheaded, bejowled J. J. Healey, doorman. Said he: "Yes, myself. Years...