Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift should be administered by a commission which would command the respect not only of our own people but of all people." Mr. Neylan named Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, James H. Perkins (National City Bank...
...Senator Tydings muttered that 70-year-old Mr. Lewis is not capable enough for even the Mediation job, but he was not expected to fight confirmation. How capable Millard Tydings is was suggested by news last week from Pennsylvania. That commonwealth deducted $750,000 from the $7,457,798 net taxable estate of the late Henry W. Breyer (ice cream) to pay fees to counsel who saved the estate $6,447,988 in Federal estate taxes. Paid to Millard Tydings' law firm...
...President of the United States has addressed a telegram to me, the curious contents of which you are already familiar with," began Dictator Hitler amid much tittering. The Führer then chopped up Mr. Roosevelt's telegram into 21 parts, prefacing his replies (see p. 11) to each of the parts with the word Antwort ("answer"). Each time he changed his inflection of Antwort; each time he got guffaws from the gallery and deputies. Big moment in hilarity came when the Führer got to Question No. 18 and read down the list of the 31 nations...
...fact has obviously escaped Mr. Roosevelt's notice that Palestine at present is occupied not by German troops but by the English," said the Führer in his best ironic tone...
...Mr. Chamberlain's excuse for the change in plans was simply that the British Admiralty had decided that the Repulse was too valuable to be spared so far from home. There were, however, other more specific reasons. A German war fleet was last week prowling off the coast of Spain. In that fleet were two 10,000-ton "pocket battleships" which, in case of war, would make ideal commerce raiders. In all the world's navies there are but five ships that could catch and sink a pocket battleship and one of them is the Repulse. The others...