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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Counsel for the line submitted a memorandum written in 1926 to his superiors: "Mr. Hickin telephoned and I could not regard either his words or manner of speaking as satisfactory. He said that ... he had been to the commissioner's office and also 'uptown' [14th Street] twice. Mr. Hickin insisted he had been told 'uptown' that 'everything was O. K.' " By "uptown" and "14th Street" the N. G. L. lawyer said he meant Tammany Hall, whose null was then on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that...
...Tardieu skyrocket went up, twice. In the first Tardieu Cabinet there was no Pierre Laval; in the second he was unobtrusively Minister of Labor; and when this Cabinet fell his chance almost came. Briand and Tardieu both insisted that Laval be asked to form a Cabinet. He tried and he failed, because by a typical quirk of "loyalty to my friend André" (Tardieu) he insisted that in a Cabinet of which he was Premier his friend must be a Minister. To form a cabinet including Friend Andre at that moment proved impossible. Again M. Laval slipped into obscurity...
...that being his own business and Congress not being in session); but that the President had no right "brutally" to insist that France make a similar abrupt sacrifice of $97,000,000. that being Premier Laval's business and the French Chamber being not only in session but twice as angry as Congress when Congress finally convened and voted...
...Colorado and Utah carnotite deposits had made the U. S. the world's largest radium producer but richer ore was found in the Belgian Congo and Radium Beige soon had established a monopoly. The Belgians have retorted that when the U. S. produced it the price was twice as high...
...that what Contract Painter Rivera has been producing for New York are rearrangements of some of his old Mexico City murals (with a New York street scene still to be painted). Gaping crowds slowed up his work so that the opening of the show has had to be postponed twice...