Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
...Free State of Prussia from 1920 until this year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free...
Under the decree which ousted Prussia's Adam & Eve, her Government is vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...
Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...
Imperial Gesture. Four days after this protest the Son of Heaven himself donated 4,800,000 yen (currently $1,200,000) from his privy purse to relieve distress among Japanese farmers, fishermen and tradesmen on the eve of the opening of a special session of the Diet...