Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
...came up and it was so close that we could see men smoking in the turret. It looked as though we were looking right into the mouth of its gun. But when he fired, the shot fell a few yards short of us. ... We fired about eight shots at long intervals. Couldn't do more because we couldn...
...State occasions the crown rests on a settee beside the Throne. Most historians agree that the 32 years of His Majesty's reign constitute the period of "Modern Sweden." In 1909 a severe financial crisis was followed by a general strike in Sweden, but this stopped just short of revolution and since then the people have increasingly been Kingsmen...
...time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
Singled out as "The Commander in Chief of Knitting" was retired Vice Admiral Hubert Seeds ("The Dear") Monroe, 62, newly appointed chairman of the Royal Navy War Comforts Committee. For the wartime saucy soft short shirts of British sailors, posited the Admiralty in a broadside to knitters last week, it is necessary to employ two-ply and even three-ply yarn...