Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which...
...chief, Thomas W. Payne, had just concluded the evening's big speech, in which he had waved the flag for ham-handed Representative Dies† and his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities. The unheralded speaker, tall, iron grey, with a noble-Roman nose, announced: "I have seen the Dies committee in action in its hearings. It appears to me that Congressman Dies wants to be Vice President of the United States...
Boyish-looking Roy Shreck, who takes off from Spokane, Wash., each midnight and climbs to 16,500 feet to take temperature, pressure and humidity readings, was in a particular fix, the worst he had seen in his three years of flying for the U. S. Weather Bureau...
...wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three other Giannini intimates. "This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March...
...master draughtsman in his own right. The drawing is uniformly fine as is shown in the sheet of animal figures and in the background work for "Snow White," or in Donald Duck trying to open a package. Characterization has also reached just as high a place as may be seen in the model sketches of the Seven Dwarfs and the duck drawings from the "Ugly Duckling...