Word: putting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...your issue of Nov. 10 on p. 19 you put New Mexico's red-headed senator and Democratic idol, Sam G. Bratton, among the list of re-elected Republican Senators. Please correct this before the entire Democracy of the Sunshine State begins firing criticisms at you. Although usually correct, your publication is far from right in this instance. Senator Bratton has been the recognized leader of the Democratic party in New Mexico for six years...
...Post Office Department announced that on Dec. 1 President Warren Gamaliel Harding would turn his head 90°, would henceforth offer his full face to view on the brown 1½?stamps. Reason: many people did not fancy the profile of the 29th President. The new stamps will be put on sale first in the Harding hometown, Marion, Ohio; will be further distributed as the old ones are exhausted. The denomination is used chiefly on unsealed folders...
...Robinson's belongings, accused them of smuggling gold out of the country-an act forbidden by presidential decree. Mr. Robinson protested that he was about to have it changed into U. S. money, refused to give up the gold. Whereupon he was arrested, later released. He put the matter in the hands of the local U. S. Consul, crossed the border irate and without his money...
Marlene Dietrich, German, had tried to be a violinist, given it up, studied drama at Max Reinhardt's school and played in the German version of Broadway when von Sternberg put her on contract. He said: "Thank God you are not like the American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until...
Considering all the millions now being spent in building construction in enlarging the Harvard Plant, one wonders why a comparatively small sum cannot be put aside to replace Wadsworth House with a structure adequate to the needs of a University such as Harvard, and to increase an admittedly small hygiene department to proper proportions...