Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate to New Orleans' City Attorney Francis Burns, Long's choice for Attorney General...
...Czechs, once free, feel now like slaves. But being determined, they are philosophical. In cinemas, when the face of the Führer who is theirs not by choice appears, they sing a cheerful song they learned from an American film: "Hi-ho! hi-ho! It's off to work...
...gathering crisis hung stormily over Bucharest last week and Rumanians learned what it was to face a war of nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to Turkey, had most to contribute to the question which last week preoccupied all Eastern European statesmen: Will the Soviet Union, fresh from sharing in the partition of Poland and successful in extending "spheres of influence" over the Baltic States, now attempt similar expansionist moves in the Balkans...
Football holidays are always given when the Yale game is played in New Haven Phelps explained, but the only evidences of official soft-heartedness for tomorrow are that no important examinations are scheduled. Exams galore on Monday morning will face these returning from Princeton, Phelps said, one of the most important being History...
...they must be accused either of being unacquainted with the facts or else of trying to conceal them in order to put the best possible appearance on their own activities. At best, they are the victims of the worst fallacies of wishful thinking. If their statements are taken at face value by the people of this country, a false and dangerous sense of security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing their elumsy attempts...