Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snell said he was going to demand a Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
Last week, just as the Peace Conference thought it had pushed negotiations to the point of re-establishing Bolivian-Paraguayan diplomatic relations which have been severed since 1932, Bolivia and Paraguay again began spitting at each other like a pair of jaguars. Under strong pressure from the Conference, Colonel Franco had agreed to accept the five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home...
...Slim got to Wilcox in time. He and Wilcox were both hurt. When Slim wrote the news to Cally, she came out to nurse him. She fixed it for him to have a job in maintenance, where he could stay put and raise a family. Once more Slim thought he'd go with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally and the job of being a lineman came in the power-house yard on a snowy night, with the ends of hot wire, broken by the cold and the weight...
...gold acts of 1933 and 1934. Last week, in response to queries from the Carmelites regarding sending their bullion abroad, the Treasury Department informed them they must surrender it to the U. S. Mint. The sisters learned they would get only $600 for the metal which they had thought was worth $2,000. Chagrined, they faced a choice between waiting for more donations or buying a comparatively plain monstrance from a religious supply house...
...receive six dinner invitations for the same night; and to tumble into bed at four in the morning after having gone to a private musicale and a ball or two after dinner." Most amusing incident she can remember is the late William Jennings Bryan getting high on what he thought was nonalcoholic punch. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt's words of comfort to the late Senator Walsh's daughter made a deep impression on Mrs. Keyes. She reports them as follows: " 'Dear child,' she said vibrantly, 'life does go on. It must...