Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House the President called Colorado's stocky little Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, banker-lawyer chairman of the Senate subcommittee which had charge of the Relief bill. "Little Alva," to whom the President gave "the silent treatment" when he ran for renomination last summer, may not be so brilliant as his late father, "Big Alva," who was Governor of Colorado for two terms, or so colorful as his Uncle Billy, who ranched in the San Luis Valley (whence came Jack Dempsey) and was Governor thrice. But his spine last week was stiff for economy...
...spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine cheaper power to offset the economic decline of its forests and fisheries...
Died. Johnny English, 14, who was kept alive during a critical period of his illness last summer by his hopes of a victory for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series; of neurogenic sarcoma (nerve cancer); in Chicago. Told of the fourth straight defeat of the Cubs last fall, he replied: "Well, you can't always...
...Castings: W. C. Fields as Pickwick in a trilogy based on The Pickwick Papers, to be started by Producer Lester Cowan in London next summer; Paul Muni as Rev. Martin Niemoller, famed German Lutheran preacher, in a Warner Bros, picture to be called The Bishop Who Walked With...
...serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions, $34,429 for 85 jobs, and camp councilors, $23,860 for 112 jobs. The University's summer guiding service, which provided without charge formal tours for nearly 7,500 visitors, produced $1,617 in earnings for student guides...