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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some of you are farmers. . . . Are you fellows mendicants or beggars that you want more [U. S. funds]? ... If you'd quit being a confirmed individualist and organize to control...
...make a talkie (except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would limit his disguises, make it impossible for him to wear part of his make-up in his mouth Last week Chaney was visiting a Manhattan hospital twice daily for throat treatment...
Said Retired Champion Gene Tunney, a ringside spectator: "It was low ... a dangerous punch. Once I tried an uppercut like that against Chuck Wiggins. I fouled him twice and the referee warned me. The third time I landed low the referee became quite peeved. Then Chuck Wiggins spoke for the first time. 'Gee whiz, Mr. Referee, that punch...
...years. Last year's graduating class gave $1,142 with a total of 167 contributors. In the preceding year, $849 was gathered from 144 gifts, while in 1927, the pool almost reached the $2000 mark when 267 members of the class gave $1,965.85. Although gifts will be solicited twice a year until the class' twenty-fifth reunion, money for the fund will be received at any time by the Class Agent...
Numbering among its 22 passengers Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer, and Lady Wilkins, on a belated honeymoon, the Graf headed for home via Seville, was twice belabored by storms. North of Lyon, on the last day of the voyage, Dr. Eckener described the squalls as "a regular witches' cauldron...