Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mounting anger, the President learned in April that there were 75 "sure votes" for a compromise plan. No compromise, the President cried to his tiring wheelhorse, Joe Robinson. McNary chuckled, and the anti-Roosevelt votes only increased...
...were astonishingly loyal. By last March he had got the Transcript's creditors to take one-third of a new stock issue, at 20? on the dollar, in payment for their claims, raised $200,000 from 23 new stockholders, of whom he himself was the largest. By last April Trouble-shooter Johnson was in control of the Transcript...
When dressy, horsy Grover Aloysius Whalen unveiled his $157,000,000 New York World's Fair last April, he figured that out-of-town customers would be storming its gates by July 1. Instead of a Big Push he got an attendance so low that he was moved fortnight ago to start making reduced rates (reduced parking fees, bargain admissions for large groups) to fairgoers. Last week...
...continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than 15,000 Jewish refugees are estimated to have illegally entered Palestine in this...
Sport-loving are the Kings of Iraq. Ghazi I (killed last April in a motor crash) was a passionate follower of the horses. Last week his four-year-old son, King Feisal II, took up the ancient & honorable game of golf...