Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your otherwise complete article on Paul McNutt, you failed to mention whether he was a Mason. I have recently heard from both Masons and non-Masons that no man will ever go to the White House who is not a 32nd Degree Mason. If true, here is a political factor far more important than the Legion. How many of our Presidents have been Masons, and how do the prospective 1940 candidates stand in this respect...
...sent it back retyped. A two-minute standing ovation, with applause rent with rebel yells, came when the resolution was read in the House. Only a few New Dealers kept their seats. In the Senate word came around from Boss Garner that he wanted no speeches, demonstration or even mention of the incident...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
With the characteristic methodicalness of a young man who had graduated from college with Honorable Mention in Economics, Banker Woodward began to build up his stud farm by learning all there was to know about blood lines. He scoured the U. S. and Europe for the blood he wanted. He evidently got what he was looking for. Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt...
...that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international loan would be granted, although Mr. Hudson later denied that any mention of $5,000,000,000 was made...