Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House luncheon that followed was a hurried, impatient meal. Ahead lay a full winter's work and new quarters in which that work was to be done. Bodyguard Gus Gennerich helped the President into his wheel chair, rolled him the length of the West colonnade to the new White House offices. Before the President departed for Hawaii last July he turned over to the wreckers the small white, structure which Roosevelt I had erected in 1903 on what was the site of th : Presidential greenhouses. Said Roosevelt II: "While I am away from Washington this summer a long-needed...
...that contingency, was glad to sign a body of treaties in which: the U. S. renounced future naval primacy and scrapped enormous quantities of war boats; Britain renounced her actual primacy, accepting equality with the U. S. for the first time; and Japan was granted a proud third place (ahead of France and Italy) upon binding herself to respect the territorial, integrity of China and the "Open Door." Today Japan, having successfully despoiled China of the whole of Manchukuo without outside interference, quite logically expects to force naval equality from Britain...
Hardly had the Bolivian ballots been counted when the hosts of Paraguay suddenly reappeared before "impregnable" Fort Ballivian. This time they took it without trouble, along with 10,000 Bolivians and $3,000,000 worth of ammunition. This week they are slamming ahead through the Chaco, only 60 mi. from Bolivia proper...
Paraguay's victory shattered Bolivia's politics. Sick with dismay, President Salamanca could think only of firing his commander-in-chief. He set out for the Chaco front to do so but his intentions went ahead of him. Vice President Tejada had been on the wires. When Salamanca arrived, the army officers politely asked for and got his resignation. Back in La Paz Tejada had already made himself President, claiming that Salamanca had deserted. There was no doubt that Bolivia's new President Tejada was in favor of "an honorable peace...
...purple & gold-draped box to watch Louisiana State lose its first game of the season against Tulane, an institution which the Kingfish has hated and despised ever since it refused to give him an honorary degree. With three minutes to play and Louisiana State a touchdown ahead, Tulane's Simons caught a lateral pass, ran through the whole Louisiana State team for the score that...