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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Construing this as an attack on the President, the latter's good friend, Senator Jones of Washington, author of the famed Five & Ten Law, announced: "The President believes in Prohibition as sincerely as I do. . . . The President is doing his best." Which prompted Senator Borah to thunder again. Said he: "Washing your hands with sightless soap in the presence of the President will not bring effective service...
Vincent E. O'Neill, 50, member of the Board of Governors and onetime Vice President of the New York Curb Exchange explained why he was retiring. Said he: "Some years ago I asked a broker friend of mine why he was leaving the Street and he said, 'I prefer to travel on a steamer rather than in a wheel chair,' and I've never forgotten that...
Sniffing down the trail of applesauce, old-fashioned Turks saw the insidious influence of the American College for Girls penetrating to the very fundamentals of Turkish life, obtaining an ascendancy first over the Minister of Education and then over his friend and accomplice in applesauce, the Police Commissioner, finally altering even the carbohydrate menu with which Turkish officials have for centuries applied the gastronomic third degree...
...Saddened was the Pope last week by the death of Giuseppe Cardinal Gamba, 72, Archbishop of Turin, great and good friend of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. By Cardinal Gamba's death the vacancies in the Sacred College were increased to eight...