Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When...
...headed Carter Glass, who has snarled at the New Deal's "invasion" of States' rights, who turned down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick...
...official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home as Queipo de Llano denounced climbing politicos...
What was probably the longest sport-train excursion yet staged in the U. S. took place last week when the B. & O. R. R., encouraged by the success of ski and bicycle trains, inaugurated a fishing special from Chicago to Annapolis, Md. (850 mi.) for a week-end of saltwater angling in Chesapeake Bay. Of the 52 Midwest lake-fishermen (48 men and four wives) who made the trip, 40 had never even seen salt water. Returning home with 700 fish, mostly hardheads and croakers, the first batch of angling excursionists felt quite satisfied that they had $40 worth...
...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...