Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratitude for maintaining the Republic against internal discord, to Louis Barthou has gone wide-eyed admiration for spectacularly advancing in a few brief months, the diplomatic position of France. Early this week, as he welcomed to France a Balkan King with whom he was about to make a crucial deal, an assassin shooting at the King brought Death...
...friend of a famed saint. In his native Normandy many years ago Papa Cheron used to play the guitar while the "Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, sang hymns. As Finance Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky. Frenchmen have forgotten about St. Therese and the budget of 1930. They only remember that the greatest political scandal since...
...Manhattan's Polo Grounds last week, the Dodgers gave Manager Terry the answer to his gibe. They won from the Giants the two crucial games that gave the St. Louis Cardinals the National League pennant, the right to meet the Detroit Tigers in the World Series this week. In the last three weeks, the League-leading Giants lost eleven games out of 21. while the Cardinals, thanks principally to the able pitching-of the Dean Brothers...
Long drills in all departments were the chief features of yesterday's football practice. Coach Eddie Casey apparently figured that his gridsters needed plenty of rehearsal and something of a rest before this afternoon's crucial scrimmage...
...Managing Editor Bovard is probably Paul Y. Anderson, once the paper's East St. Louis correspondent, whose race riot investigations in 1917 started him on his way up. Smarter than his foppish attire would suggest, he is particularly able on the crusade type of story. Many of the crucial questions asked witnesses in the second Oil Scandal investigation (1927-28) were first written down on slips of paper by Anderson and then passed along to the less alert Senate investigators to put at the hearings...