Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Future at 70. These objectives might seem rather meagre were it not for the fact that the drive for them is already bound up with the campaign of 1940. All those who become serious candidates for the next Democratic Presidential nomination will find the issues ready made for them by the quiet struggle now going...
...Brazil. A credit of $120,000,000 is no great matter for the U. S. Government, accustomed to living on an $8,000,000,000 budget, but it means a great deal more to Brazil whose 1939 budget is $203,000,000. More significant than its size is the fact that the purpose of this credit is to enable Brazil to cut loose from Germany's economic apron strings, particularly Nazi Germany's barter policy...
Only Negro airman known to the U. S. at large is Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who once cracked up Haile Selassie's private plane in Ethiopia and is now in Manhattan, talking about flying. In fact, the U. S. has licensed 129 Negroes as commercial, private and student pilots, including Student Julian, whose license expired last year, and twelve women. Air-minded Negroes have learned to fly at six schools run by & for their race, at 43 more for whites and blacks...
...daily $185,000 bill can be met for a long time by expropriating the treasures the Loyalists deposited and shipped to France months ago. General Franco would like the money himself. He has hinted that he thought the refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore, it is not likely that the dictator is any more eager to have back almost a half-million militant Republicans than they are to return to his dictatorship. General Franco's Catalan border was closed last week...
Last week Detroit lost, and Copenhagen was about to gain a rare and spectacular British diplomatic hostess. Leslie C. Hughes-Hallett, British consul in Detroit, sailed from Manhattan to become consul general at Copenhagen. Of greater interest was the fact that Consul Hughes-Hallett was taking along his blue-eyed, dark-haired wife, Violet Holmes-Tidy Hughes-Hallett. She likes snakes and rats...