Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paris last week astute Editor Charles Grey of Britain's candid weekly The Aeroplane reported after visiting French aircraft plants: "Every factory in France has for several years past turned into what is called a cellule of some sort of Communist organization about which few people know anything. The head of the factory knows of the cellule in his own factory and he knows who is the Chef de cellule. But he never knows what is the organization to which his Chef de cellule reports or which issues orders to the Chef...
...Great Powers, plus the rounding out last week of the French-sponsored international embargo on arms shipments to Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins and gives our Balearic...
...hands. Selma went to New York, but found that she had no taste for Bohemian high jinks in Greenwich Village. With her brother, she went on a tour through Iowa at the depth of hard times, learned more of the depths of small-town hypocrisy from his candid stories of what was going...
...give his reign stature, Herod married Mariamne, daughter of the dynasty he had supplanted. In doing so he allied himself with a family that constantly plotted his overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members...
Deeply religious, Lawrence Saint attributes his artistic success to trust in the Lord, has for 15 years faithfully discharged his duties as elder at the Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, rests after Sunday service, sleeps with black goggles to shield his candid blue eyes, which are abnormally sensitive to light. For recreation, he interprets handwriting and plays such hymns as Oh Happy Day that Fixed My Choice and I Was a Wandering Sheep on his mouth organ...