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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a sumptuous luncheon the new rulers of Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
...were up & doing about enfranchisement. The native politicians adopted bobbing & weaving tactics. At one session the Philippine Senate would pass a bill enfranchising women, and the House would kill it. At the next the House would do the passing, the Senate the killing. Realizing that the men could not save their political faces forever with such trickery, the women campaigned ever more vigorously. When, in 1933, Michigan's Bachelor Frank Murphy became the first Democratic Governor-General in twelve years, they had the gallant ally they needed. With his help they finally got a suffrage bill passed...
...Following a severe cold Dr. Fishbein had developed paralysis of one side of his face. Wrote he in his imitation Pepys' Diary in the A. M. A. Journal: "It seems strange to see one side of the countenance so cold and fishy. Belike it would be well to save this appearance to bestow upon the quacks." Specialists assured Dr. Fishbein that ''sooner or later" he will recover...
...role of fortune hunter. When Paul (Gregory Ratoff), a waiter at the Cafe Metropole, turns out to be a genuine Prince Panaieff, the situation becomes so involved that even Proprietor Victor has an anxious moment or two before the denouement in which Victor gets the money he needs to save his cafe, Laura Ridgeway gets her impostor...
...grandfather was. This week U. S. consular officials in Berlin pleaded fervently that Hirsch was under age when he committed the crime, was influenced by others. Because Hirsch has made a full confession they admitted that only "the intervention of Adolf Hitler or some other high official" could save...