Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PLEASE DON'T GIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK EYE BECAUSE REPORTS OF OUR HEAVY DEW SOUNDED BAD. YOU DID THIS ABOUT OUR EARTHQUAKE YEARS AGO. AS THIS IS BEING WRITTEN NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY, THE SUN IS SHINING AND STREET IN FRONT OF PLOMB TOOL CO. IS PERFECTLY...
When newshawks turned up at the White House on the day of the conference, even veterans chuckled at the "truth party" the President had prepared. No sooner had the doors closed on the conference room where the three directors were seated in a semicircle in front of the President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first...
...Blum's personal newsorgan, Le Populaire, has been rebuking Stalin harshly about the Moscow trials. When the Communists still insisted upon being friendly last week, Premier Chautemps suddenly talked of asking for powers so sweeping that no Cabinet could have got them and, when leaders of the Popular Front (Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists) demurred, he claimed in the Chamber that without these powers he could not raise the money France needs for her rearmament-30 billion borrowed francs per year, said the Premier...
This week, after it had repeatedly appeared that a National Government excluding the Communists might be formed at any moment, Socialist Blum finally came forward with another Popular Front Cabinet which he said he had formed "in principle"-that is, he had failed to form a National Government, was by no means sure he had anything that would hold together...
...reading events superficially, are inclined to underestimate this country. For despite these prophets of evil the French situation-so far as internal matters are concerned-is not so desperate as many would like to think. France is very far from having been 'ruined' by the Left Popular Front. There are only 400,000 unemployed out of forty-odd million inhabitants-a figure which compares very favorably with most other countries in which the free capital system is still maintained...