Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...Washington has been Sir Ronald Lindsay, a legate of long experience in Russia. Persia, France, Egypt, Turkey, Germany. His two marriages were with U. S. women: first to Martha Cameron, daughter of former Pennsylvania Senator J. Donald Cameron, who died in 1918, next to Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the late Colgate Hoyt of New York...
...late General Kurt von Schleicher, who was murdered in the Nazi purge by SS Guards, once described von Papen as: "The kind of traitor beside whom Judas Iscariot is a saint...
...pound, athletic former Attorney General Robert G. Menzies (pronounced as spelled, not mengies as in Scotland) was in a big hurry to get to Parliament House in Canberra one day last week. The United Australia Party was meeting there to choose a leader to succeed the late Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons (TIME, April 17), and Mr. Menzies had reason to think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with his arm in a sling...