Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For years the great Edwin Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16...
The next blow came from a source almost as impressive as State Department or White House. Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee handed out, without preface or elaboration, a concise statement of his view of U. S. foreign relations with totalitarian States. Its text in toto:
In 1921 Congress created the job of U. S. Comptroller General and gave him the duty of passing on all Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to...
Spies and Drugs. In 1916 Philip Musica got out of jail with a suspended sentence as a reward for helping to untangle his own swindle. In the meantime he had gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy...
Hopeful that the refugees would put up a good front in their new world, the chief London refugee relief centre at Woburn House handed the young exiles instructions on proper refugee deportment.