Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt was a "life member at large...
...life begins at 40 (Walter Pitkin) and ends at 40 in the trenches (Mary Johnson), it sure will be one hell of a nonsweet short life for us 40 '39ers...
Mittie Gordon was a follower of famed Negro Marcus Garvey, who in the 19205 aroused millions of Negroes to a frenzy of enthusiasm for life in Africa. Although Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey was convicted of using the mails to sell fraudulent stocks and was deported, Mrs. Gordon still thinks he is the greatest of Negroes. "Garvey Clubs" still exist, and what is left of his Universal Negro Improvement Association backs the Bilbo bill. Chief opposition comes from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose pale-skinned President Walter White is denounced as an "amalgamationist" by Senator Bilbo...
...know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare" by his racket-bustings, the Cardinal Newman Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann (1937), Alexis Carrel (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan...
...through the Polish Corridor. In return, Germany promised to recognize Polish economic rights in Danzig, assure Poland a free harbor in Danzig, conclude a new non-aggression treaty to last 25 years-which, Herr Hitler assured his deputies, would "extend far beyond the duration of my own life." Poland's answer was to reject the proposals, mobilize her Army, renew her old alliance with France, make a new one with Britain. By likening Poland to the Czecho-Slovakia of a year ago (a hotbed of anti-German oppressions, he said) Herr Hitler gave clear warning that...