Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
Poland Into Greatness? Signed at Versailles integrally with the main treaty was the Polish Minority Treaty, vesting in the League authority to compel the Polish Government to give adequate protection to Jews and other "minority peoples" in Poland. Without success Poland has several times urged the Great Powers to put their minority peoples under similar protection. Last week Colonel Beck arose to rasp: "Pending the bringing into force of a general and uniform system for the protection of minorities, my Government finds itself compelled to refuse, as from today, all co-operation with international organizations [i. e. the League...
...Diplomatist's heart M. Barthou has been sure that Germany would refuse to sign. Last week this refusal was announced by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath-thus proving one of M. Barthou's main points, that Germany will not agree to abide by her present frontiers. He will now return to his original program of an Eastern Pact signed by Germany's neighbors, plus Russia and, if possible, Italy. In such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn...
...southern circuit judge who takes mildly to Bourbon whiskey. Will Rogers, too old to be the main love interest, assumes again, as he did in Handy Andy, the role of matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white...
...Boston, serves as it is with manufactures who presume to flaunt sin before the faces of respectable people, maintains a solidly sensible position, the position at the Gay Nineties, that incredible age which refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts...