Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. was happy but hard-put. He knew he was in for some ribbing. Republicans had wanted to abort some of the very Treasury kittens which the Secretary now proposed to drown...
Churchill Brown Mehard raked through a personal inheritance so fast and thoroughly that in 1937 his family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill...
...thing was certain: The day that Joseph Stalin finally decides to cast his lot with Britain and France will be a particularly black one for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. After that, the acquisition of "vital living spaces" should come hard for the Fiihrer and Il Duce. There may not even be room enough for them at home...
...country, there rose a militant nationalism, a recognition that the British monarchy is as much Canadian as British. All this must have been gratifying to the King and Queen, as well as the gentlemen of Downing Street, but it was also cruel punishment for Their Majesties, who worked hard, did not let the crowds down once...
...Fair has hit most night spots as hard as the shows. Many night clubs smell of fresh paint, gleam with new chromium, prance with new legs, but the nocturnstiles are not clicking-while at the Fair such places as the French Pavilion, where the check for eight people may come to $90,. are jammed. Some of the entertainments which Manhattan's 135 night-club owners have put on for hoped-for Fair visitors...