Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorously opposes the war referendum amendment proposed by Indiana's Representative Ludlow. She further says: "I wonder whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...
...From Italy's viewpoint, she surely is, for she cultivates vast areas of political soil plowed and sowed by her husband. Yet in saying, "I have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman show in herself, requiring the full-time services of three able assistants to stage everything she feels...
Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
Honest Joe had never left Australia until he represented his country at the Royal Jubilee in 1935, where he was so awed when he first saw Queen Mary that he could but exclaim: "Magnificent! Magnificent!" Last week he left his country for good, leaving behind his wife, whom he called "his right-hand man," and his "cricket team": eleven children...
From up-&-coming Nocona 18 riders set out in March with a rousing send-off in their ears, behind them a caravan of trucks and trailers for spare horses, sedans for the judges and Promoter Parton. Eighteen miles out, the lone woman in the race was disqualified when a judge caught her riding in a truck while her horses peered out placidly from a trailer. When the going got tough, five other riders dropped out. Nevertheless, Promoter Parton and his pals had a rare outing, a lot of it in wayside saloons. But as the California line neared they began...