Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Washington, President Roosevelt sent to Congress his long-delayed message on housing: "May I," he asked, "draw your attention to some important suggestions for legislation which should tend to improve conditions for those who live in houses, those who repair and construct houses, and those who invest in houses...
Among the less popular forms of athletic recreation should be listed sitting on the cushions in Divinity Chapel. Some kind soul donated a fund "for upholstering the cushions in Divinity Chapel", and although no repair work has been needed for years the Tressurer's Report annually carries the pathetic item "Balance fund for upholstering cushions in Divinity Chapel...
Derby Day this year finds Churchill Downs physically about the same. The vast old gimcrack wooden stands have had a touch of paint and a little repair has been done on the fences which separate Louisville's most noted establishment from the mean little houses of one of its least attractive sections. In tune with the times, a café and bar have been added; admission prices are down 33⅓% to 50%. But for the first time since 1930, a sell-out is forecast for the Derby. Vice President & Mrs. Garner from horsy Texas and NRAdministrator Johnson, oldtime...
...stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved the note to Britain, but Poland was wobbly. Foreign Minister Barthou hopped a train for Warsaw to see what he could do to bring Poland back into line...
Near suburban Barbizon, spiritual home of the world's greatest landscape painters, Mayor Roger could contain himself no longer last week. The village plumber had been to the Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French...