Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-Guamsters gathered aside in the House and sarcastically hummed Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. When Mr. May suggested that the issue was, "Are we Americans or Japanese?", report was that 20 votes switched against...
Four months ago that verdict might have had the immediate political effect of winning Tom Dewey New York's Governorship. Last week its political effect was longterm, for Mr. Dewey a vital safety play rather than a touchdown. For old Jimmy Hines, whose attorney, hard-boiled Lloyd Paul Stryker, burst into tears, it meant a possible prison sentence of 25 years unless he appeals successfully...
...move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber and the House were expected to approve by large majorities. For both countries the eight-year-old Spanish...
President Roosevelt's most trusted adviser on European affairs is 48-year-old William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Chief spokesman abroad for the President's policy of encouraging the European democracies to resist the dictators' aggressions, Ambassador Bullitt telephones Mr. Roosevelt almost daily from Paris, writes him long, chatty, informal reports on the European situation...
Sent by President Wilson and Wartime British Prime Minister David Lloyd George to observe the new Soviet Russia, young Bullitt returned to have his report (recommending recognition of the Soviets) ignored and himself denounced by Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons. For the next 14 years Bill Bullitt occupied his time writing a violent expatriate novel, getting psychoanalyzed in Vienna, divorced twice. If his old friend Franklin Roosevelt had not won the Presidency, Bill Bullitt might still be sitting around Paris at loose ends...