Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up rolled a big, blue Rolls-Royce out of which popped a little brown man clad in grey suit, panama hat, white shirt and honey-colored tie in which gleamed a $5 gold piece. "Here comes the Body!" bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats moored at the pier. "We got the Body!" shouted Negroes hanging over her rails. Then Father Divine boarded the other boat whose...
...royal private car entered Yugoslavia and its regent Prince Paul greeted King Edward who had blossomed into tan shoes, shimmering grey suit, apricot shirt and red tie. Yugoslavian rebel circles announced plans to turn the English King's yachting cruise into a demonstration against the Yugoslavian Regency with organized shouting at every port of "Long Live Democratic Monarchy! Down with Dictatorship Royal or Otherwise! Welcome to King Edward As a Symbol of Our Destiny!" News of any such demonstrations Yugoslavia's iron censorship could be counted on to suppress...
Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible...
...results. Last week the first of its 1936 surveys came off the press, showed that of 50,000 straw votes, Republican Nominee Landon received 25,307, Democratic Nominee Roosevelt 20,869, minor candidates the remainder. Of 32 states polled, 21 went for Landon, ten for Roosevelt. Arkansas showed a tie...
...plush pillows and tell others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want to do without some one thinking, 'I wonder what she gets for doing that...