Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agitation for Philippine independence reached such a pitch last week that President Hoover decided to send Patrick Jay Hurley, his Secretary of War, halfway round the globe to look into the islands' affairs. Obediently Secretary Hurley canceled a trip to Ireland to attend the Dublin Horseshow in August, arranged to sail with his wife and staff for Manila from Seattle July...
...Britain and Italy had unconditionally accepted his terms. Scot Ramsay MacDonald had made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt Australia snatched the crumb. Proud, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty...
...samples: "Love covers everything. . . . I shan't become one of the idle rich. . . . I'll have to go somewhere to get away. . . . I believe I won because of my faith in God. . . . Shucks, $145.000 isn't a fortune. . . . Money isn't everything. . . ." The Boston Daily Globe described him as "completely bewildered": the N. Y. Herald Tribune as "a trembling Negro . . . tears streaming down his cheeks...
Father Wilbert J. Austin, President of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders), has on his Cleveland desk a large, translucent, electrically-lighted earth globe on which New Nijni-Novgorod is spotted 270 miles east of Moscow...
...graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours of economic distress. The Boston Globe...