Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Connally, who likes to talk even more than most. "The Senator from New York wants to go off on a vote-catching expedition in Harlem. The Senator from New York has his mind and eye on the future." New York's lumbering senior Senator Royal Copeland then rose to explain unnecessarily, as he was to do many times as the day progressed, that Tom Connally's scorn was directed not at him but at his colleague in name only, junior Senator Wagner...
...figures appeared in a statement included in the annual report of Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the College. Total receipts of the H.A.A. for the 1936-37 academic year rose to $564,571.09, an increase of $44,397.47 over the 1935-36 income. But the difference was not pure gain, since guarantees paid to visiting teams climbed to $174,015.15 from $139,303.65 last year, cutting into the increased intake...
Also in the stadium was a Harvard enthusiast whose hearty cheers always seemed to end rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
Last week, as it is likely to be for some time, major influence upon the New York stock market were the inspirational efforts of Washington. Three weeks ago, when the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements, prices rose in the best weekly rally since the smash started. Then they fell back. By early last week the Dow-Jones industrial averages had set a new low of 123.9. Railroads at 31.7 and utilities at 21.3 were almost at their bottoms...
...Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage...