Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Alva Adams of Colorado shifting from one foot to the other during the Roosevelt speech at Pueblo (Mr. Adams' home town), waiting, while 15,000 people listened, to see what the President would say to help (or hinder) his renomination. Franklin Roosevelt spoke for ten minutes, praised the Royal Gorge of the Colorado River-and never once mentioned Mr. Adams. But neither did he mention Mr. Adams' opponent, old Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard, who had suddenly gone to Kansas to see a sick brother. So Mr. Adams' punishment for opposing the President's Court plan...
Sirens screamed, 21 bombs (a Presidential salute) exploded, the band played A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and the screaming and shouting, whistling and waving, yelling and yowling McNutt Democrats of Indiana indulged themselves in the first hysteria...
That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
...guest-conducting at one of Germany's numerous opera-houses and concert-halls (he is also one of Germany's top-notch orchestra leaders), Strauss lives quietly and well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home...
Author Daniels talked philosophy with Tennessee agrarians, interviewed David Lilienthal of TVA, investigated TVA's town of Norris, observed the astonishingly pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks...