Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Given these three premises, opportunist Japan promptly drew her conclusion by invading China while the invading was better than it may be later, bad and bloody though...
...week began with the Dutchess County Fair, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., a few miles up the Albany Post Road from Hyde Park. One visit to the Fair, for any Dutchess County squire, amounts almost to an obligation. Last week, the President made two. First afternoon, his car drew up under a canopy where the prize-winning cow and calf were brought over to be patted and he held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded...
Juan Corominas, spokesman for the Spanish Left, threw the meeting into an uproar by charging that "Germany and Italy, by their intervention in Spain, are trying to grab advantageous positions for themselves." This drew howls from the Italians. The presiding officer banged with his gavel, reprimanded Corominas with the admonition that the Union takes no stand on political conflicts. The Spanish delegate hotly replied that he was not taking sides, he was simply stating facts...
Touching the labor situation, President Cardenas drew cheers from the legislators when, in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt's "both your houses" remark (see p. 11), he attacked recent strikes caused by political squabbles, called inter-union conflicts "unjustified," said they served to "give arms to our enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
Died. Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 58, onetime British Army officer, author of The Men I Killed, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, etc.; at Walton-on-Thames, England. General Crozier's experiences in the wars, from which he drew his books, made him a famed, bitter pacifist. Last week as he lay dying, Army officials were soundly berating him because in his latest book, The Men I Killed, he said that in the World War British officers shot their own and Portuguese soldiers to make them fight...