Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ratification of the 21st Amendment by a bare 6,808 votes. Since then he has deposed two Dry Governors (McAlister, Browning) who would not go along with him for State repeal. Last week his latest protege, Governor Prentice Cooper, vetoed the Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode Wet Patterson 30 years...
...complications might easily set in, there was still a 50-50 chance that he would regain normal health. One reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce rather than war. Typical French move was a conference of high French Generals in Tunisia at which General Auguste...
Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
Having decided no longer to ignore the Bolsheviki-to the amusement of Cartoonist Gabriel in the London Daily Worker (see cut), Mr. Chamberlain's new policy became economic as well as social. Leaving next week for a tour of northern Europe is a British trade delegation. It will go first to Berlin, where it will stop for only a day. It will then proceed to Warsaw for a three-day stop and from there to Moscow for five or more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade...
...Laborite motion of censure brought against Mr. Chamberlain declared "that in the opinion of this House, the decision of His Majesty's Government to grant unconditional recognition to the Spanish Insurgent forces, dependent upon foreign intervention, constitutes a deliberate affront to the legitimate Government of a friendly power, is a gross breach of international traditions and marks a further stage in a policy which is steadily destroying in all the democratic countries confidence in the good faith of Britain...