Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreux Conference drew up a final agreement last week Lord Stanhope found in his humble pie the following bitter bits...
...Teacher Ney settled in Iredell County, N. C. In the library of nearby Davidson College, whose seal he designed, he read books on recent French history, drew sketches of Napoleon and Ney in the margins, scribbled comments on the authors' accuracy. On his deathbed in 1846 he declared: "I am Marshal Ney of France." He was buried in the cemetery of Third Creek Presbyterian Church near Statesville...
...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...square-toed German boot drew back for the kick fortnight ago when Dictator Hitler sent his light cruiser Leipzig steaming into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations...
...head of a State. What reply have I to take back to my people?" "Almost Ridiculous." In reply to His Majesty, thousands and tens of thousands of weasel words were pronounced by the orators of over 50 nations. Of these Premier Leon Blum of France, new to Geneva, drew the most eager audience for a speech which rose entirely above Italy and Ethiopia, a land which Orator Blum succeeded in mentioning only once. There was no one theme in Premier Blum's discourse, but there were many themes, and he sounded them like an organist pulling out random stops...