Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public square named after him. Introduced to the crowd of 20,000 by Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, who like most other Southern Congressmen, last summer went on record against the Wages & Hours Bill, the President ignored Mr. George in his speech, pointedly patted the back of loyal Governor Eurith D. Rivers and then proceeded to give his favorite theme-that Recovery is being held up by "minority selfishness"-a new twist...
Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
Frau Dollfuss, the widow of the murdered Chancellor, while loyal French friends kept saying she had escaped northward to Czechoslovakia under the personal escort of the French Minister, actually escaped southward to Hungary, reached Budapest in safety...
...central fact about an Italian, says Seabrook, is that he is "a go-getter, interested more in construction, material welfare and money than in anything else." Of German Americans, he estimated, only 1% are obtrusively Nazi. He calls the Germans "the most important, and most admirable, and generally loyal, but least lovable of all our foreign-language race groups." Poles, everywhere happy & contented, "dream at night of planting wheat and cabbages," detest Communism and Fascism as they do their hereditary enemies Russia and Germany. Among the White Russians of Westbury, Long Island, Seabrook was surprised to discover that...
...would last a long time. A brief book compared with Anthony Adverse (369 pages to 1,224), Action at Aquila has few of the ponderous, philosophical passages that weighed down its predecessor. It is a stirring affair of gallant colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes to save a Confederate lady in distress, sometimes to clean up a nest...