Word: uncertained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
...sold its down-at-the-heel canal to PWA (subject to a court receivership settlement) for $2,000,000, approximately $1,000,000 above its book value, thereby getting enough cash to meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate...
...whole uncertain business of radio, broadcasters of house programs lead the most uncertain careers. And of all such radio ephemera, none is more ephemeral than the studio book critic. Efforts to put book talk on the air have generally been short-lived...
...opposed for renomination last week by onetime State Senator Henry L. Hess, who received oblique White House endorsement through letters from Secretary Ickes and Nebraska's George W. Norris. Governor Martin and his sturdy Law & Order platform were edged out, 57,727 to 50,905. Uncertain whether the President or labor had given him the harder boot, Old Iron Pants growled: "The results have in no way changed my convictions...
This afternoon the Varsity meets a highly touted St. Johns nine on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock with Tom Healey scheduled to foil for the Crimson. Coach Fred Mitchell yesterday used three third-basemen, Galluccio, Ulin, and Fulton, and it is uncertain who will get the starting call in the hot corner today...