Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Self Portrait by Velazquez. One of the few that the Spanish genius had time to do in his eternal task of grinding out fresh likenesses of his master, horse-faced Philip IV of Spain...
These tables are: I, "The Maintenance of Employment," II, "The Regulation of Competitive Enterprises," III, "The Control of Currency and Credit," IV, "The Role of the States," and V, "Federal Revenue and Expenditure." The sessions this afternoon will not be open to the public and are to be continued with the same personnel tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. Only open meeting will be the plenary session tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in Emerson D at which reports on the discussions at each table will be submitted and a final summary will be made by Adolph A. Berle...
...streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect," who may one day sit on the throne of Italy as King Vittorio Emanuele IV...
...ring in his voice mounted as he shouted the words, each a separate challenge. "Preserve" "Protect" and "Defend." "SO HELP ME GOD!" he added with sacerdotal solemnity. Act IV was Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment...
...onetime enemy, Henri of Navarre, who became Henri IV of France in spite of all Catherine's maternal machinations, gave the old lady her due. Said he: "What could the poor woman do, with five little children on her arms, after the death of her husband, and two families in France, ours and the Guises, attempting to encroach on the Crown? Was she not forced to play strange parts to deceive the one and the other and yet, as she did, to protect her children, who reigned in succession by the wisdom of a woman so able? I wonder...