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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Roosevelt will trade each other's pants off, thus leaving each still with one pair of pants, seemed the likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington...
...best of him. When the race was over, he set off five bombs, to show that Cornell, rowing in the fifth lane, had won the race. Five minutes later, when the crews were paddling back up the river and the crowd had started to disperse, the judges posted the correct results. California, in lane No. 1, had won, with Cornell 1/3 of a second behind. Washington was third, with Navy, Syracuse, Penn, Columbia strung out in that order up the river...
...reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs 128 lb. at 5 ft. 6. The boy was taken directly home, without the reporter stopping for photographs or to telephone his newspaper en route, which would have given the Times an earlier street appearance than its rivals. Please correct your "drag-out and flooring" of George Weyerhaeuser...
...long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping...
...read your account of Pacific Greyhound's opening their "Nitecoach" service between this city and Kansas City with great interest because I have just completed a round trip on these buses (TIME, May 6). However, you are not entirely correct in every detail...