Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ahead of him, in the swirling, unpredictable future, loomed the mirage of the job that goes with the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., in Washington, the job he once described: "Why anybody should want to shoulder that crucifixion down the street I don't know."
> Moley's nominal superior in 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is shown as a singleminded, sincere, intellectually limited man, subjected to a succession of groveling humiliations. A devastating chapter is the account of the torpedoed world Monetary and Economic Conference in London 1933. In it, Author Moley makes...
Reality. The realities of war are suffering and death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as...
The square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high...
Anyone owning foreign securities who dropped in at a French bank to cash the coupons was asked if he was French. In case the answer was "yes," the bank deducted 36% of the payment as a tax. Down at the other end of the economic scale, French workmen found their...