Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of July in Vienna. Young workers of both sexes from many countries, 50,000 strong, met to demonstrate for world peace, for friendship among peoples, their slogan "Nie Mehr Krieg" (never more war). Taken in connection with the remark attributed to Ambassador Dawes, that war depends on the man in the street, this meeting of young socialists becomes truly significant...
...before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying a pet opossum to his President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week Pa Burraker and President Hoover settled down in a couple of chairs under the trees. The President said that he "and his friends" would contribute $1,200 to build a schoolhouse where...
...Began debate on the tariff bill. ¶ Saw William E. Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Senator Tyson, sworn in as a Senator from Tennessee...
Joseph O. ("Iron Man") McGinnity...
Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...