Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower Tour. Last week Speaker Garner, before leaving Manhattan for Texas, called on Alfred Emanuel Smith in the Empire State Building, spent a taut hour pleading with him to be a "good Democrat'' and join the campaign. Mr. Smith eyed him narrowly, promised nothing. The Speaker departed without being escorted to the building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title...
...Canada and the U. S. by the Cosgrave government. At Saint John, New Brunswick reporters found one Vincent Boyle who admitted that he had received $100 and passage back to Ireland from the present Minister for Defense, Frank Aiken, that he was on his way to New York to join 700 more returning to Ireland...
...clapped into the military barracks were Governor Valera Valverde, the mayor, the chief of police and seven councilmen. Lieut.-Colonel Marquis de Sauceda was named Governor of Seville. From Algeciras and from Jerez de la Frontera, where all Spain's sherry is made, came mutinying troops to join the rebels. At Cartagena a naval garrison mutinied. In Granada and Malaga revolutionary fervor ran high. General Sanjurjo cut all telegraph & telephone wires north of Seville. The general, who had escorted Queen Victoria from Spain after last year's revolution, announced that his coup was "purely republican." Few believed...
...join Editors Kirby Page and Reinhold Niebuhr came Economist Paul Howard Douglas of the University of Chicago and Devere Allen who was an editor of The World Tomorrow for ten years. Feature of the revised magazine will be a .weekly department, "As Brailsford Sees It," written in London by Henry Noel Brailsford, onetime editor of The New Leader, onetime writer for Manchester Guardian and The Nation (London...
...could not quite put out of his memory his first love, Lucy, whose brusque disappearance he had never understood. Like other fundamentally mis-married men, Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children as Catholics she was downright upset. Her vulgar, cheap-scheming mother encouraged her to leave Paul, have a good time with flashy friends. Paul took Björg as she came and went, worked...