Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
Colombia, Shortly after his election to the Presidency in 1930, Dr. Enrique Olaya journeyed to the U. S. with all the usual trappings of a good-will visitor. In New York he was welcomed by Mayor Walker. A special train carried him to Washington where President Hoover gave a White House dinner in his honor (TIME, June 16, 1930). Secretary Stimson also gave him a big dinner at which Dr. Olaya met Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. They talked socially about Colombia's financial plight. Though Mr. Mellon later denied it. President-elect Olaya was sure he heard the Treasury...
...almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave the theatre, you realize that you have been fooled, which is the purpose of such entertainments. Good shot: Fairbanks and his hobo companion (Guy Kibbee) walking along the track on which Joan Blondell's train for Salt Lake City is quickly disappearing...
...querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York?makes for comedy of a sort. One reason it fails to achieve it, is possibly Phillips Holmes, whose gloomy, dazzled and polite impersonation is identical, except for the mustache and his lines, with...
...Morals," Huxley's "Religion Without Revelation," and Russell's "What I Believe," Dr. Harris said. These writers have no naive belief in Science as the now Mesiah, but own a humanistic point of view in all matters. "I think that these authors have inclined to an over-analytic train of thought...