Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm organizations none is so potent as American Farm Bureau Federation, and of all farm leaders few are so influential as the Federation's burly president, Alabama Cotton Grower Edward Asbury O'Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales...
...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...
White politicians in 16 Southern States that lack Negro professional schools, expecting this burst dam to bring a flood of applications from Negroes for admittance to whites' schools, sputtered and fumed. None was more vehement, however, than Kentucky-born Justice James McReynolds, who wrote a dissenting opinion (Minnesota-born Justice Pierce Butler concurring). Stormed Justice McReynolds: "I presume Missouri may . . . break down the settled practice concerning separate schools and thereby, as indicated by experience, damnify both races...
...Just so none of Der Angriff's readers would miss the contemporary point of this parody-parable, the face of Mme Magda Lupescu, the part-Jewish mistress of Rumania's King Carol, was used to illustrate the article. And to ram it home, next day the Frankfurter Zeitung's comment on Carol's shooting of Rumanian Nazis was concluded with the observation: "At some time, one is inclined to believe, Rumania will see a revolution, perhaps very soon...
...steady job was found for Jeff Davis, and none has yet been found for Jan Masaryk, for 15 years Czechoslovakia's Minister to Great Britain and the strongest pleader for his country in western Europe. The Nazi tied government of his homeland is now busy tearing down statues and paintings of Jan Masaryk's father, cofounder with Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia. Soon after Munich, Minister Masaryk's Legation in London, ordered to remove resigned President Benes' portrait, complied. A second order, requiring removal of a portrait of Jan's father, was not immediately obeyed...