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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
Publisher Brush, now 66, sticks mostly around Salem, where he owns a historic house, fishes and dabbles in Republican politics. Publisher Moore, 50, an oldtime telegrapher and Hearst feature salesman, runs things at the Canton headquarters. Last week it was reported that: 1) Brush-Moore has taken a one-month option to buy the Curtis estate's holdings; 2) representatives of Ohio banks are inspecting the property to see about advancing the money; 3) the option expires January 16 and if it is not taken up, the Boks may let Publisher Martin stay on the job for a while...
...suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...
...defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary of the Advocate...