Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...France the peasants stacked up their heavy baskets, shook the powdery blue-green Bordeaux mixture from their smocks and thanked le bon Dieu that what showed every prospect of being the greatest vintage since unforgettable 1893 had come to an end. Chemists and agricultural experts bore them out. All over France, in the Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, weather has been ideal for the vine this summer. There was little hail, and the drought that burned up wheat crops only made deep-rooted grapes the sweeter. Analyses of the green wine have already sent prices soaring, but production all over...
...several hours the crowd had listened to denunciations of Jews, liberals and radicals; it had heard promises of bigger and better meetings along this line; it had gazed at, read and reread a huge banner in the front of the hall which bore the inscription "German People in America! Awake!" It had feasted itself into a stupor on Hitler's gospel of hate, on the message of the most reactionary, finance-dominated regime in history...
Last February when the first crisis of the Stavisky case had Frenchmen rioting in the streets, Gaston Doumergue picked white-chinned old Henry Cheron for his Minister of Justice with the reputed remark, "He is a funny old bore, but at least he is absolutely honest...
...Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, the alarm went out that a naked lunatic was crawling through the fields beside a road, uttering low sounds. On signal police rushed the man, threw a blanket over his head, bore him off struggling to an ambulance. From beneath the blanket, as they drove toward an asylum, came a muffled but coherent voice. Timidly the prisoner explained that his clothes had been stolen while he was swimming, that he had promised to be home at dinner time, that he felt he should not break the engagement...