Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later, in 1803, word came across the Strait of Dover that Napoleon was preparing to invade England; and the French Assembly was reported to have declared that England could not cope single-handed with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...
...Brooklyn-born, fair of face. Into three decades Dean Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
Joseph Moore Dixon of Missoula, Mont., to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Born of Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a Progressive, dabbled in many an insurgent movement. However he was not sufficiently irregular to defeat Democratic Burton Kendall Wheeler for the U. S. Senate last year...
...Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker and highest of high tariff men (TIME, Feb. 18) as he sauntered last week into the White House offices to tell President Hoover why the tariff should be broadly and generously revised. Dark with dismay was that same face 40 minutes later when Mr. Grundy emerged from his conference. President Hoover had disgruntled potent Mr. Grundy by saying...
...consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five & Ten law, but later drove the truck on to the legation, helped unload...