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Third move was to spend some money: 1) by raising the minimum for Government employes' salaries to $30 a week; 2) by appropriating $1,230,000 to repair the Government buildings, roads and bridges of Revolution-torn Cuba...
...were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American Airways to Chicago...
...Observed the sedate New York Times in 1923: "Miss Brice has had her nose condemned, and torn down and is about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
...suit he crawled into Grandmother's knitting bag, kept mum when she took it and him away on a flying trip. High in the air Scamper's paws went to sleep. When he moved, he was discovered as a stowaway. Grandmother, distressed at his torn clothes, converted a partially finished green sweater into a rabbit jacket before the trip was over, shipped Scamper home to the White House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine...
Oliver found Carolyn more interesting than the hopeless case; soon they were in love. When Amy met a Tammany lawyer and made eyes at him, Castie soon got a parole and Amy's husband the horns he had long deserved. Oliver, torn between his ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake...