Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Record for the most courageous, most politically inept 1940 campaign statement thus far went last week to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. In Des Moines, Iowa, corn kernel of the country, Mr. Taft bluntly announced his wholehearted opposition to the New Deal's corn-loan policy-on the very day the Agriculture Department announced a 57?-per-bushel corn loan, thus pouring into the State about...
...Mr. Pappy...
...denied that he had asked Mrs. Camp to marry him, said that Mrs. Camp was too much of a lady to take a proposal after a few days' acquaintance. Mr. McCarthy whipped out a Kuhn letter: "Florence : I am terrible in love with you. I beg you to become my beloved wife. I will always be true...
...Chamberlain appeared last week in the House of Commons for the first time in a fortnight. One of the first questions asked him was by Labor Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half...
Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated...