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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudolf Hecht's side last week rallied Huey Long and his puppet Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. It was Huey Long, in New Orleans to fight a Senate investigation of his political steamroller, who ordered a public holiday on Saturday to give the Hibernia a 48-hour breathing spell over the weekend. But no one at the Friday night conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast...
...would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because we're having a spell of hard times...
...easy for a spell-bound generation to submerge the mind in the man. And only when the headmaster has been partially forgotten can the education be accorded his significance. For thirty years, Doctor Stearns has labored to make easier the difficult step between school and college. So-called progressives find much to criticize in the result; for there remains considerable old-fashioned iron in the Andover scholastic methods. Through all the fads and "isms" that have swept through America's educational system, Doctor Stearns has clung to the belief that the preparatory school is the place where a youthful mind...
...Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract bridge be the most exciting of pastimes. The New York Herald-Tribune...
...Brown Derby and fifteen cent cigar have come; they have cast their spell and vanished, but the memory and fascination remains renewed, intense. In the short period of a week, a single man has raised shouts of approval from great crowds, has drawn widely dissenting opinions from the press, and has caused no end of quaking within the shiny boots of both parties. Al Smith has opened his eastern campaign...