Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare made the Cabinet's only drastic move, announced that next time there is a war scare the State will force upon the owners of the stately homes of England "compulsory billeting" of refugees from the cities...
...ruled so firmly a legacy unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks...
This contagious dogma was uncorked 70 years ago by an unlettered New England clockmaker, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me. He had discovered that he could mesmerize people, and in collaboration with a clairvoyant youth named Lucius Burkmar he cured all manner of ills. To him in 1862 went a formidable, twice-married invalid, Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson, who after her third marriage was to become known as Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church...
...agricultural improvements might reconcile villagers to their colonial status. Such a program requires trained experts. Since Negro civil servants are cheaper than white, in fact cost only one-fifth as much to hire and maintain, the $1,000,000 Makerere College is expected to be a good investment for England...