Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, breast-beating Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, roaring like any sucking dove, nominated Utility Tycoon Wendell Willkie as a good 1940 G. O. P. possibility. Said Mr." Willkie wryly: "If the Government continues to take over my business, I may be looking for some kind of a new job. General Johnson's is the best offer I have...
...mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans. I'd want exactly five bands and all that...
With expedients exhausted, Toledo's deficit last week reached $800,000. Cleveland had only a few thousand dollars to pay for relief until Jan. 1, said it needed $1,000,000. The urban centres pleaded for a special meeting of the Legislature, but Republican Governor John W. Bricker, elected on a platform pledging "adequate relief," insisted that other means should be found first...
...heavily; the prosecution's auditor admitted an error in calculations of the alleged thefts; all but five charges against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed. The jury heard Bund members testify that under the "leader principle" Kuhn could spend the money any way he liked-but not on a woman, said one Bundster, either vacillating or jealous. They heard Tom Dewey, summoned as a defense witness by Kuhn's lawyers, who hoped to show that malicious prejudice brought about their client's indictment. Said Dewey, asked if he hated the Bund: "It is really very difficult to call...
...denied that he had asked Mrs. Camp to marry him, said that Mrs. Camp was too much of a lady to take a proposal after a few days' acquaintance. Mr. McCarthy whipped out a Kuhn letter: "Florence : I am terrible in love with you. I beg you to become my beloved wife. I will always be true...