Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell you, Alf Landon, if you succeed me at the White House you ought to get a boat and try out the Potomac River for fishing. I have taken week-end trips and they have done me a lot of good...
...State for the Treasury, who has imposed a strict embargo on exporting the money across the border. The $700,000,000 Spanish gold reserve fell into the hands of Valencia, so Senor Amado has had to hump himself to keep the Rightist treasury in funds. This he has done by means of "voluntary" contributions from the rich, by forced conversions of foreign securities into Burgos bonds and by credits ($180,000,000 last January and probably much more today) from Italy and Germany. Also in Burgos, the Delegate of State for Industry & Commerce, Senor Joaquin Bau, is busy encouraging...
...sketch of Old Friends Hemingway and Max Eastman in their recent bosom-baring scuffle (TIME, Aug. 23). At the last minute Painter Peirce changed his mind, dropped The Foibles of Fisticuffs from his list. On view this week, however, are new paintings of circuses and county fairs, bright canvases done at Key West, two views of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations at Cambridge last year, charming paintings of the children. Critics detected a deepening in his work, belying one of the numerous Peirce ballads which runs...
...after Jack Neylan to find out what he thought the judge would decide, husky young Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford footballer and now manager of an Anglo branch, snorted: ''I want to meet that Frenchman!" When his brother Alan dissuaded him, he pleaded: "Father wouldn't have done anything like that...
...Islands, off Honduras. Meeting bad luck from the start, cornered finally by a landing party from a British battleship, Walker threw away his chance to get back to the U. S. when he proclaimed himself the leading citizen of Nicaragua. Protesting to the "civilized world" on the injustice done him by the British, "the gray-eyed man of destiny" spent the six days before he faced a firing squad in meditation and prayer...