Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay. . . . Have you read the editorials in the Baltimore Sun, criticizing our President Roosevelt? . . . Have you observed that even the small grocery stores, in all sections of Baltimore, have plenty of butter and eggs to sell? . . . Don't you think it's swell to be free all summer, to have a good time and not be forced to goosestep around with a gun instead of a baseball bat? . . . Did you observe, if you saw the Orioles play, that a fellow named Joe Greenberg was right in there with the- rest of the boys? . . . Did you visit...
...than anything he wants "yes" men in the Senate, not "yes but -" men. In the Majority Leader, a "yes" man is essential. Where would any Administration's steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben" to swing his election as Senate Leader, by one grudging vote (38-to-37) away from Mississippi's able but too-independent Pat Harrison...
...American Legion. He spent one term at Harvard Law School until his money ran out, finished his law course in 1924 at the University of Kentucky, taking 16 examinations in two days and getting record high marks. He coached athletics at Versailles High School and Centre College, also played summer professional baseball (pitcher) in Canada. He married pretty Mildred Watkins, a singing teacher in the Versailles School, and now has four children: Marcella, 16; Mimi, 12; Albert Benjamin Jr., 8 ; Joseph Daniel...
...settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted 125 students each summer; Provincetown was more famous as an art colony than it had ever been as a fishing...
...Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America's Cup in 1934 and 1937, is racing a twelve-metre this summer, and Harold Vanderbilt, successful defender, tried a hand at sailing a Twelve, Van S. Merle-Smith's Seven Seas, fortnight ago with such success that he is contemplating building one, seasoned yachtsmen predicted that international racing for the America's Cup may go Tom Thumb...