Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucille Pugh, noted Manhattan divorce attorney, in a learned four-page brief citing precedents from at home and abroad: "The only legal conclusion is that until the ceremony is over, either party has the right to change his mind. When Andy heard the shots, his mind certainly did change...
...Chamberlain's excuse for the change in plans was simply that the British Admiralty had decided that the Repulse was too valuable to be spared so far from home. There were, however, other more specific reasons. A German war fleet was last week prowling off the coast of Spain. In that fleet were two 10,000-ton "pocket battleships" which, in case of war, would make ideal commerce raiders. In all the world's navies there are but five ships that could catch and sink a pocket battleship and one of them is the Repulse. The others...
...rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
...opposition parties organized in a united front, demanded that elections be free of Government interference. At 11 p. m. one night, a week before the election, President Busch called a Cabinet meeting in La Paz, announced his dictatorship, refused to accept resignations. At 1 a. m. Cabinet officers went home, leaving the President and Minister Foianini to scribble out a program for the first classically totalitarian State in the Western Hemisphere.* At 6 a. m. they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian...
Tests of their thinking power were yet to come. Their first thoughts on the Big Town were varied. Sighed Molly Milano at week's end: "It's just a movie come true." Said William Propst, 19: "After all, I like the quiet of my home town...