Word: lande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry whom Member Kirkwood does not like, "might better be used for rearing human beings...
...time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning peers to sell the land to the Government, which would then settle farmers on it. The peers were more than willing. They flooded the Government with offers. The Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer forests...
...patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first bothering to ascertain whether the Japanese economy could stand...
...World's Fairs-A 14-reel, 2-hr. 17-min., free-show cinerama of U. S. history pieced together from Hollywood historicals, newsreels, shorts and travelogues of the last 25 years, it was put out by the Hays office with the title: Land of Liberty. To compile it, 53 large and small cinemakers contributed 2,000,000 feet of film. The earliest: a newsreel of the Kaiser (1914); the latest: The Bill of Rights, a Warner Bros, short to be released in August. From this vast batch, Hays office experts and recruits from studios culled 1,000 excerpts from...
Having done its bit to educate its readers, the English press proceeded to rib them with reports of the U. S. reception to its rulers in what it must have considered U. S. terms. The Daily Mirror's, lead article began: "The land of amazing parades saw its most astounding ever when the King and Queen drove through 600,000 whooping, cheering Americans to the White House." The crowds sang God Save the King in swing time, the Mirror reported, adding that Americans greeted the visitors with shouts of: "Hiya, King, what about a little hustle...