Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week gifts of holiday food reached the White House in abundance. President Hoover went outside to greet the driver of a creaky old cart which a pair of oxen had drawn from Maine. In the cart were 40 bu. of Maine potatoes, a present from Governor Gardiner. Three days later Maine potatoes were sent out to Washington's relief agencies for distribution among the poor...
Starting Dec. 1, 1931 Soviet weeks will end on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th days of each month, which will be holidays. Twelve such 30-day months add up to 360 days. Inserting five special Red holidays between the months pads out the year to 365 days. An extra special holiday will take care of leap year...
...command of English, no interpreter was necessary and in two and one-half hours the trio covered the equivalent of what last month it took a non-English-speaking Premier and a non-French-speaking President five hours to discuss. President Hoover endorsed Italy's one-year naval holiday plan, spoke wishfully of the forthcoming Geneva conference on arms limitation, hoped France and Italy could get together on the size of their auxiliary navies. Signer Grandi described Italy's purposes in European politics, its desire for peace. Nothing was asked. Nothing was promised...
...Minister Grandi had no gaudy achievements to take back for a Roman holiday he did carry in his diplomatic luggage intangibles hardly less valuable-a personal friendship with a U. S. President, glowing goodwill from Press and Public, a better understanding of U. S. intentions. Because these things were hard to write about, because Secretary Stimson made them even more intangible in his lawyer-like announcement, a sector...
...invaders from the Heights will take their first workout on Stadium turf this afternoon. Indications are that they will fill the air with passes in the holiday encounter with the Crusaders. Against O'Connell, Purple passing ace, B. C. will pit Freitas, who is counted to open up early with a passing attack which features DeVenuti on the receiving end. The Eagle aerial attack is designed to make the running game more effective and to give Chesnulevich an opportunity to break loose...