Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment the Treasury Department drew a sharp economic sword, brandished it menacingly at Soviet Russia. Anti-Reds clamored for a general onslaught upon U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade. Last week the Treasury thrust its weapon back into the scabbard...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
...lull, M. Tardieu by raising an eyebrow signaled one of his Deputies who quietly proposed that the Prime Minister make the next vote one of confidence. He did so, won by a majority of 48, not astounding but sufficient. Quick as a magician producing a rabbit, M. Tardieu drew from his pocket and read to the Chamber an executive order signed by the President of France, genial Bachelor Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue, adjourning Parliament until November...
...sultry grey days without sun and days when light airs rolled the sea into innumerable gay reflections of summer, the America's Cup yachts sailed their first official trials off Newport, R. I. On Vincent Astor's Nourmahal the skippers met and sat around a table while Commodore Astor drew four slips of paper out of a hat, each with the name of a yacht on it. It had been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three...
...reprinting Reporter Brundidge's findings, the Tribune drew the hostility of its competitors, and last week openly charged them with obstructing the search for Lingle's murderer. The Daily News and the Herald & Examiner tried but failed to force the removal of Charles T. Rathbun, the lawyer whom the Tribune had had appointed as special assistant state's attorney for the Lingle case. Other newspapers, the Tribune claimed, were printing information which served as warnings to men sought by police...