Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State-a fact which partly explained President Roosevelt's desire to have him head the State Democratic ticket this autumn and thereby help win New York's much-needed 47 electoral votes for the New Deal. Democrats hastily analyzed their list of other possibilities. They could hardly spare Postmaster General Farley from his management of the Presidential campaign, though he craves the position of Governor. Tammany also dislikes 44-year-old Robert Houghwout Jackson, now an Assistant Attorney General whom New Dealers regard with fond eyes for his work as assistant general counsel of the Bureau of Internal...
...silenced when it declaimed : "This tremendous new political fact sends England's Prime Minister into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films...
...want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German girl who painted too, decided to get married last September. They got a clean, one-room studio...
...father, Secretary Cleland Boyd McAfee of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Mildred McAfee is a "distinctly Christian" joy. Less from austerity than from habit, she does not drink, smoke or play cards. But she enjoys the cinema, likes to dance. In her spare time she knits, and, like Ellen Fitz Pendleton, writes an occasional detective story...
Discoverer of the Rodessa field was a stropping onetime lawyer-politician named Richard W. ("Dick") Norton. aborn plunger he spent his spare time accumulating a fabulous number of leases on land in Caddo Parish. As far back as 1922 this country attracted oil companies to test drilling, but they all eventually gave up. By 1930 Dick Norton had collected mineral rights to about 26,000 acres. Thena young Shreveport geologist encouraged Norton, who was down to his last dime, to borrow money and finance his own drilling. A well in the north part of the Parish turned...