Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national income fell from $73,000,000,000 in 1920 to $53,000,000,000 in 1921. Severe recession. The Federal expenditures were reduced from $5,000,000,000 in 1921 to $3,000,000,000 in 1922 with the corresponding reduction in taxation. The national income then rose to $60,000,000,000 in 1922, an increase of $7,000,000,000 over the level...
...named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
Every time the Rose Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
...garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak," every obedient canine listener in Albion spoke...
Married. Jack Doyle, 25, pugilist-singer ("The Irish Thrush"); and Movita (real name: Maria Castenada), 22, Mexican cinemactress (Rose of the Rio Grande); "somewhere in Mexico." Irish-born Pugilist Doyle, divorced last year by Cinemactress Judith Allen, was deported a few weeks ago for entering the U. S. without a health certificate...