Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would lay out money to vote for politicians. To fulfill his campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel must find $42,000,000 a year to give every Texan over 65 a $30-per-month pension, and bring tax-wary industry flocking into Texas. Said he: "I'll just take it from the folks that...
...Moscow from any pending Czechoslovak settlement the most difficult point in the discussions at Paris last week. French Premier Edouard Daladier, although his personal estimate of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin is much the same as that of Neville Chamberlain, considers that Russia is potent and that France must have, in addition to Britain, another potent ally...
...Foreign Office and all civilian bureaus of the Chinese Government began withdrawing from Hankow last week, under orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that they must be established in Chungking, some 650 miles farther up the Yangtze River. Japan's drive up the Yangtze was still balked at Kiukiang, 135 miles below Hankow, by desperate Chinese resistance amid a scorching heat wave which sent thermometers...
...that the 100 troops under his command ride in motor trucks, that even the island's garbage is collected by motor lorry, so it is unseemly, illogical, ridiculous and in bad taste that their Governor, who is, moreover, the King's representative, cannot have a car, but must poke about on foot or use a horse and carriage. Members of the Assembly pricked this pompous British argument with Bermuda chuckles which swelled into a laugh. They again voted that in Bermuda nobody can have a car on the public roads (they are allowed on private estates), recalled...
...last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China, $9,384,000 to Japan...