Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...
...Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer...
...Cambridge, rowed on its crews, matriculated at Harvard, rowed some more, worked on the Crimson (college daily), and survived the intellectual rigors of Harvard Law School. Both still live in Cambridge, still row singles shells for fun on the Charles River. Good-looking in a well-scrubbed, boyish way, they are great friends...
...that Germany was in the very last stages of preparation for a war which Adolf Hitler would decide to fight now or later. On August 15, the 52 divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...
Suspicious bankers last week still could get no satisfactory explanation for the change from the reserved Reserve, wondered what New Deal financial shenanigans it might foretell. But Reserve officials pooh-poohed such fears, insisted they had discontinued the tabulation because it proved an unsatisfactory way to show the purpose of loans...