Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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December 17, 1938 was the next big day for the Rebellion-when John Garner returned to Washington after six months in Texas. After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session...
...largest herd of goats on his 23,000-acre ranch. He has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more. He is making better than 10% on this operation. "If. everyone spent his money like Jack Garner, there wouldn't be any depression," is a crack attributed to Franklin Roosevelt...
...tuning, since CBS and NBC outlets duplicate each other in most important areas. But in the business of radio advertising the changeover was big doings. It indicated that henceforth Campbell Soup's huge outlay for radio advertising time (last year it was $2,279,425) would all be spent with...
...with the Maroons six years ago he got his nose, jaw and four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most of it gloomily in Bermuda, praying in his own fashion for "Ace" to live...
Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley has spent much of his life in the southwest with the Choctaw Indians. Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas is part Indian. Therefore Lawyer Hurley, who works for Sinclair and other U. S. oil companies, would seem an excellent go-between in efforts to make Mexico pay up for the $175,000,000 in U. S. oil properties it expropriated last year...