Word: lateraled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State, and, two years later, Minister to China...
...years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal, and did not act in restraint of trade, since the later legislation sought collectivism and control of harmful competition. Specifically also he noted that the Secretary of Agriculture directly licenses such groups as the milk associations...
...Republicans, high & low, to turn the beady eye of suspicion on "That Man's" every proposal. Hence they looked sharply at a suggestion emanating from "a source close to the President": That the public interest might best be served by a postponement of the 1940 conventions to a later date than usual...
Dispatches did not mention any special snow equipment, such as motored sledges, on the Russian side. But the Reds did employ their famed parachute troops. At Petsamo, this technique apparently worked well at first. Later the parachutists were surrounded where they landed and shot up. On the isthmus, Finnish sharpshooters picked off all the first few men who floated down and the Reds quickly abandoned this tactic...
...their tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Baron Mannerheim. Two years ago they threw a tremendous party in Helsinki to honor his 70th birthday. He is verily their George Washington. After serving in the Russian Army for nearly 30 years (he was a lieutenant colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, later commanded the 6th Russian Cavalry as Lieutenant General in World War I), he went home in 1917 to command the armies which won Finnish independence (with German help) from the Bolsheviki. After his White Guards had run the Red Guards out of Finland, the Baron shot up 2,000 Bolsheviks...