Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny winter day (Feb. 7, 1937) that President Roosevelt delightedly stunned the country with his Supreme Court Plan, one Senator withdrew from the ranks of his huffing & puffing colleagues, sought out a secluded leather chair, thoughtfully drank a Scotch-&-soda which he later described as "a foot high...
...spoken as a result of explicit orders from Rome and under protest, for he has been considered a moderate. Optimistic Britons hoped last week that his recall indicated that Dictator Mussolini wants him in Rome to put the brakes on Foreign Minister Count Ciano's hell-for-leather axial policy. Certainly the Ministry of Justice in Fascist Italy today is not an important post...
...last 15 years have originated in Russia. A few shepherds, it is said, now follow their flocks on bicycles. Ulan Bator Khoto, the capital, has three-story buildings, a theatre and traffic lights, although camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three...
...more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold him. He was offered...
...with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products and processes...