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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel. Last year he was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon, now supervises Texas patronage distribution. He sends long night letters to President Roosevelt at least twice a week. Once in a while sleepy telegraph operators at Fort Worth are roused late at night with a message back from the White House to Publisher Carter. The political bickering at "Shady Oaks" lasted long after Vice President Garner retired at 10 p. m., a whole hour later than...
There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians...
While it failed to work for Notre Dame, the Notre Dame system worked neatly for Yale. Twice it let Captain Bob Lassiter lead long marches down the field for touchdowns against Brown. But Yale suffered many a scare. Three times Brown ripped deep into Yale territory, once to the 1-yd. line. The fourth time, in the last period, Brown pounded through for a game loser's finish...
Died. Vithalbhai Javerbhai Patel, 60, Indian Nationalist leader, twice president of the Indian Legislative Assembly; of heart disease; in a clinic near Geneva...
...answer was simple: there would be no such people. Well, there are plenty of them now, and there is also much of the banking dislocation which the Fords predicted in the post war rise. They have been right twice, when all said them may, and that fine faith which industry cherishes for every spavined abstraction is no longer with them. The current credo, "planned capitalism", has a tidy and efficient sound, but it does not mean very much. There are three things to plan; what we shall produce, how much of it we shall produce, and who is going...