Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call later last week a "thieves' bargain." The diplomatic finesse of M. Léger was meanwhile shown when M. Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best posted London correspondents...
...Majesty's Government to provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into their parlors and their confidence...
...poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country with Jews...
...Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana...
...reading machines are recent inventions which were first displayed at the Business School last spring. They are electric and come equipped with several lenses to use with different sorts of reading matter...