Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution. Closer to and better liked by the President, Ogden Mills really ran the Treasury for two years before his superior resigned. Since 1933, Ogden Mills has been trying to help put the Republican Party together again, running his private finances which included directorships in Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., Chase National Bank, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., National Biscuit Co. and Seaboard Oil Co. A liberal in matters of economics, he was too much of an Old Guard Republican in political reputation to carry much weight in 1936. After a summer of cruising on his yacht Avalon and two weeks...
...possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...
...south of Spain the same desire to beat the winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...
...dignity they gathered to see dedicated the Franco-U. S. War Monument just outside Versailles on the highway to Paris. Built almost entirely with money donated in small sums by school children and their elders throughout France, the monument features statues of General John Joseph Pershing and the Marquis de Lafayette...
...Letter to James B. Munn," Mr. Hillyer discusses the conflict within him between the poet and the academic scholar. Also there are letters to Bernard De Vote, Peyton Randolph Campbell, Queen Nefertiti, and the author's son. Only in "A Letter to Queen Nefertiti" does he abandon his pleasantly familiar tone and adopt a more racy and a more lyrical theme...