Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the House bill appropriating $100,000,000 more for WPA until June 30, instead of $150.000,000 more as demanded by President Roosevelt. With pain and blushes Majority Leader Barkley abandoned the President's figure in the face of certain defeat, while the President transferred leadership temporarily to Florida's opportunist Senator Pepper. The bill went to the President...
...plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told that only one kind of support was wanted, Russia was expected to be elated. A successful defense of Poland and Rumania would mean that never would Joseph Stalin's men have to face Adolf Hitler's across a common border...
...Hitler birthday, the Danzig crisis took an apparent turn for the better. A "deal" was reported in the making, whereby Poland would voluntarily give Danzig to Germany. The Germans were said, in any case, to be planning no invasion of Danzig across Polish soil: to save Poland's face, the invasion would come from adjoining East Prussia...
...intensely jealous of the Army officer group and last year went so far as to try to remove General Werner von Fritsch, then Commander-in-Chief of the Army, from his job by charging homosexuality. The General was ousted-for other reasons-but in the face of the plain truth that he was definitely not homosexual, the Army demanded and got General von Fritsch's public exoneration...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. last week announced that it had constructed, and would exhibit at the New York World's Fair, a new electromechanical man. His name: Elektro. In either profile or full-face he looks not unlike Actor John Barrymore, and with a total of 26 tricks in his repertoire, he is probably the most talented robot ever built...