Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Edy got a bachelor's degree and a baseball letter at the University of Missouri in 1905, has spent most of his life in public service. First city manager's job he landed was with Berkeley, Calif, in 1923 at $7,500 a year. Seven years later he went to Flint, Mich, at $15,000. In 1931 Dallas hired him away for $16,500, which he proceeded to earn by saving the city $1,426,000 in operating expenses in the next three years. Last year he went on the Federal payroll as Assistant Di- rector...
...Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics, Dr. Brown said: "No special attention is necessary for Dr. Kagawa. I see that he has everything he needs and I am with him because of the Federal request...
Marin's name rhymes with barren. He likes to play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John...
Ever since the assassination of his brother in 1923, Dictator Gomez has avoided the capital. Seventy-seven miles away at his enormous ranch Las Delicias he sat under a giant rubber tree, feeding peanuts to his pet elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their...
...good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...