Word: daniele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides signing a D. S. M. award for Admiral Yarnell last week, the President held a surprise party in his office, pinned a D. S. M. (voted by Congress) on Admiral William Daniel Leahy, retiring this week as Chief of Operations to become Governor of Puerto Rico...
...Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew the $85,000,000 loan, the Labor...
...spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports of heavy machinery and raw materials) and the Bank of England converted the $85,000,000 loan into an $80,000,000 one consisting of a series of short-term notes maturing from 1941 to 1946. The New Zealand Daniel had also converted the British lions...
...like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS . . . A NEW WORLD. To see and hear them, 25,000 Southern Californians jammed...
...view on four sides of the U. S. last week were three freshmen Governors and one postgraduate, all engaged in bitter-end battles with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record...