Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native of Holland and an admirer of the British people, the fairest and most courageous in the world today-they do not hide behind Neutrality Laws like your terrified country does-I would take this opportunity to tell you that your statement is scurrilous and unjust...
...discontent of farmers over AAA's failure to elevate corn and wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even...
Meanwhile, French editors were not behind those of Britain and the U. S. in denouncing German pogroms in the strongest possible language and showing they felt even that to be inadequate. It was suggested that Charles Augustus Lindbergh and other Aryans who have recently received high German decorations ought to send them back to the Führer...
Finding interviewers more disposed to talk of lifeboats than of books, he spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
...Behind this newspaper circus was the longstanding determination of Harry Wolfe & kin to dominate Columbus journalism as they now dominate its banking and business life. The Wolfe millions are founded on low-priced shoes (Wolfe Wear U Well), now made in three factories and sold in 4,000 stores in 38 States...