Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First out at the White House door was hatless Edsel Ford. Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family...
...Oregon Central Military Road Co. received a land grant for one of its roads, the building of which was accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw...
...Soldier Benito Mussolini outranks in social significance the Province of Littoria, reclaimed since 1931 from the noxious swamplands of the Pontine Marshes by Italian ex-soldiers for themselves and their families. One morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
...spread mortar with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia, Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went cheers in which the Italian peasants were joined by a delegation of Japanese university students who shrilled: "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual free trade with Britain were the owners of scores of new factories which shot up in Ireland behind the tariff walls. Eventually, most of them will probably be forced into bankruptcy...