Word: mass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the front pages in the U. S. This was surprising enough but the reason was more so. It was a rumor that he had invited Henry Ford to lunch at the White House. Two days later, even more astonishingly, the rumor was confirmed. Said Henry Ford in Sudbury, Mass.. where he was inspecting his collection of antiques: "I want to give the President a chance to look at somebody who doesn't want anything...
...Nazis who attempt to lead the 3,200,000 Germans in the Republic of Czechoslovakia (pop. 15,000,000), became highly truculent last week. Their Führer, obedient Konrad Henlein, fresh from conferences in Berlin with Göring and other Nazi bigwigs, staged a mass meeting in Karlsbad, the famed spa, delivered a series of ultimatums to Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes so outrageous as to shock even the now violently pro-German London Times...
Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus...
...pursuit of happiness in the composition of music. Unmarried, and with no house of his own, he lived throughout his working life in lodgings or with friends. At his death, his principal personal effects (inherited by Brother Ferdinand) consisted of one writing desk and, within it, an enormous mass of manuscript music...
...pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines no cinemagoer can fail to comprehend. When, after that, the film attempts to whitewash the munitions industry, it succeeds only in getting itself all messed...