Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's power irrevocably dead? Administration men had said it would be, until toward the eleventh hour they produced an opinion from Attorney General Murphy stating that the power might legally rise again, after lapsing, should the Senate pass this money bill later on. Until a weary hour Senators debated this point, finally agreeing to vote on the bill this week...
...With a great show of hustle-bustle Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet received Polish Ambassador Julius Lukasiewicz and French Ambassador to Warsaw Leon Noel. Later he summoned German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to the Quai d'Orsay, and word was subsequently passed out to the press that M. Bonnet had told Count von Welczeck that France was fully backing her Eastern European ally...
...Wang Ching-wei the city of Peking must be filled with memories of a rebellious youth. In 1910, when he was 26, he went there to plot the assassination of Prince Chun, Prince Regent of Imperial China. Coplotter was Miss Chen Pi-chun, his fiancee, later to become his wife. She was entraining for Tokyo, and the youth left his hiding place temporarily to see his bride-to-be off at the station. As the train pulled out he politely tipped his hat, and thus revealed to the Regent's vigilant police his false queuetating him, but in the meantime...
From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...
...Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks of his employer as Mr. Goldwyn. To an interviewer Cineman Roosevelt recently observed: "I won't say I'm not going to go back into politics, because if I do say so, and then later decide I will go back, people will say I don't know my own mind...