Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Obligation. The superintendabnt last week chose Dr. Milton Chase Potter of Milwaukee to be their new president. To Dr. Potter, as the convention closed, went a letter from President Hoover, congratulating "the department of superintendents . . . and the nation upon the inspiration in the high service of education that flows out to the country from its deliberations. These serve again to remind our people that, however the national economy may vary or whatever fiscal adjustments may need to be made, the very first obligation upon the national resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. We cannot afford...
...National Opposition which includes the Fascists and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists, vote-splitting seemed the best strategy. They attempted in vain to collaborate on a candidate. For their candidate the Nationalists and their Steel Helmet faction then chose Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, Deputy Chairman of the Stahlhelm...
...Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace his religion, chose the air for the ceremony "because I wished it to be performed on no earthly territory...
...food at miners' mass meetings. Before they left Knoxville, Mr. Frank received a telegram from the mayor of Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills and up past Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee meet, pushed Mr. Frank and his band. Sheriff Blair rubbed his palms, announced that Cell 13 of the Harlan County jail was happily empty, and that...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, chose to inform the nation last week that it is legal to sell gold pound pieces (called "sovereigns" and worth 20 gold shillings) for 27 paper shillings or whatever else one can get for them. Instantly "London's Gold Rush" began. Millions of British gold pieces came out of hiding and millions of Britons began to take their "paper profits...