Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington reporter making $10,000 a year went to a banker and asked for a loan of $100,000, the banker might well demand assurance that the loan would be repaid. A room full of newshawks who had never seen $10,000 a year blinked appreciatively at this interesting statement. Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the response it got. He was drawing a fanciful parallel to describe his views on a practical matter: crop loans to U. S. farmers...
...girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave the President a first-hand account of the incident, urged him to attend the commemoration exercises at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, in which Captain Holmes was wounded, Sept. 16-17. The President, although scheduled to commemorate the 150th Anniversary...
Though Nazi authorities have seen to it that important munitions plants be well supplied with help, an actual labor shortage exists in several agricultural districts and smaller industrial centres. This fact was last week grim news for many a slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...
...these reports was there any eyewitness corroboration. From the windows of the two hotels could be seen the placid bosom of the Whangpoo, and lying at anchor in midstream a line of foreign warships, prominent among them the elderly Japanese cruiser Idumo, flagship of lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese commander-in-chief at Shanghai. While newshawks were still discussing their crop of rumors the antiaircraft batteries of the Idumo crashed into action. Somebody looked at a watch. It was exactly...
...Reynolds' Schnapps just behind. Twilight Song broke her gait at the first turn. By the time E. Roland Harriman's Farr had taken the lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota. It was the Hanover Shoe Farms' bay filly Shirley Hanover, priced at 10-to-1, and she flashed away from the field in the homestretch, past Schnapps, past Farr...