Word: cot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a bourgeois Frenchman's fear that his new Government is far too chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts...
...when they did come. But the only permanent solution, declared Administrator Hopkins, was to turn much of the West's cropland into pasture, run the enormous political and sociological risk of moving families wholesale off their ruined acres. By week's end rain had revived the cot ton, tobacco and spirits of the South, but for most of the West there was no relief, no prospect of relief. With some 100,000,000 bushels of wheat burned away, crop statisticians last fortnight gave up all hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting...
...French Foreign Minister who represented France at the London and Geneva parleys on the Rhineland problem was (1 Albert Lebrun, 2 Pierre Laval, 3 Pierre Etienne Flandin, 4 Pierre Cot, 5 Eduard Daladier...
...income provided by his father, a Hungarian who for years conducted a prosperous Manhattan importing & exporting business, Gellert began his social and musical investigations. For long trips he used a ramshackle old Jewett in which he kept a cot. More often he hiked through the backlands, stopping at sundown at some shack where he would ask the Negro owner if he could spend the night. Thus he won the confidence of Negroes, attended their baptisms, weddings, funerals, heard them sing songs they ordinarily would rather the white folk did not hear...
Minister of Air-Pierre Cot...