Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...
...studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last survivor of their circle, proud of the fact that he discovered and pushed a whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault...
Promptly Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...
...grassy plains of Hokurokudo 30,000 Japanese troops made mimic war last week in Grand Maneuvers staged for the Sublime Emperor Hirohito by ambitious, sabre-rattling War Minister Sadao Araki who finally grew so elated by his own sense of Power that he committed a major indiscretion...
...Baptist Church in Queens Village, L. I. Local patriots have complained repeatedly but the church's minister, Rev. J. Earle Ed wards, felt justified. For nearly a century the U. S. Navy has done the same thing, running up a pennant during shipboard church services. Minister Edwards grew vexed last week when a D. A. R. pamphlet was sent him, citing a flag code promulgated in 1923 by 68 patriotic societies which agreed that no emblem may fly above the U. S. flag. Minister Edwards got his local ministerial association to appeal to the Federal Council of Churches. Welcoming...