Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early comers had been spooked by the knowledge that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, and RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, still convalescent after his air-crash shake-up three months ago, were all in San Francisco. Of these, only Jesse Jones was slated to address the convention but rumor had it that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California...
...picturesque brilliance of the Tercentenary celebration has aroused a burst of energy in the CRIMSON photographic Board that will take long to shake. The unusual pictorial opportunities led to an immensely increased output of photographic material. Something upwards of a thousand pictures were taken in the course of the festivities and the excess initiative will force towards a return to the days when a CRIMSON pictorial was a weekly feature of the paper. The present board is all set to forge on and the advent of fresh ideas and new photographic techniques can only hasten the rise of the pictorial...
...spirit move toward a closer personal touch with Jesus went to the "sinners' bench.'' Behind him the congregation's feet stomped, hands clapped, voices cried, ''Glory, glory, glory, glory." Praying as he became the focus of mass hysteria, the man began to quiver, shake, jerk in a St. Vitus' dance. "Let him get through, oh Lord! More power, Lord! Glory! Glory!" the congregation cried. The man's arms went up. His head went back. His mouth uttered "unknown tongues" until he dropped unconscious, "slain of the Lord'' to rise later...
TIME TO KILL-Rearden Conner- Knopf ($2.50). Character study of a pathological killer, written with lurid evocations of the bloody details, by the author of Shake Hands with the Devil...
...week when Nominee Alf M. Landon's special train rolled up to the turning point of his Eastern campaign tour. Nominee Landon, rid of his lingering pleurisy, waved his hat, cried "Hello everybody!" and singled out two small boys for special greeting. Stepping out of his way to shake their hands, he asked: "How do you do, little...