Word: hung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposition to authorizing improvement of Guam's facilities for seaplanes and small naval craft was hung on two main pegs by Congressmen who, whether or not they had thought it all the way through, were eloquent on their favorite objections...
Last week there was more Danzig trouble. At the Technical Institute in Danzig German students hung the sign: "POLES AND DOGS NOT ADMITTED." The Polish students' home was raided by Nazi gangs. The reaction was violent and sustained. At Poznań, Polish students retaliated by stoning a German library. At Warsaw 1,000 students paraded, shouted "Down with Germany!", made their way to the German Embassy on Pius XI Street and broke several windows. Even after Count Ciano arrived the anti-German demonstrations continued, and there were shouts of "Down with the Rome-Berlin axis...
...with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...
...Franciscans went indigenous and played Old West in the streets for days before their fair's official opening. They renamed Polk Street "Polk Gulch" and hung out signs like "Red eye, 15?. Black eye, free." In San Francisco they know how to give parties and this was one given by the whole city to the vanguard of 4,000,000 visitors from other States who they estimate will spend $400,000,000 in California this year, $240,000,000 of it right in San Francisco. For a tourist's map of that city...