Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later U. S. prestige recovered a bit when the State Department announced that "the fraud consisted in underweighing bales of merchandise consigned to the importers," ordered Minister Norman Armour to waive Collector Johnson's immunity as a treaty official, turn him over to the Haitian courts for trial...
...latest assessment of the price of socialism comes from Norman Thomas; for a socialistic burglar selected his particular summer home of all those on Long Island from which to filch fifty prime hens. For while Mr. Thomas was interpreting his doctrine literally by leaving his chicken shanty unlocked in a spirit of welcome to rich man, poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase...
...should not grow angry at his Norman invasion, nor call the special body of armed men. For perhaps all is just as it should be; the burglar merely anticipating a great social reform, the state already beginning to wither away. He should find some consolation in his first constructive step towards the socialization of the means of production, even though the ownership be but multiplied by two; and perhaps he may continue his good work if he will only be so good as to replenish his supply of hens and continue to leave the door unlocked...
...Bring Your Family.' Last week a sitting-down-together by the President and the Prime Minister was suddenly and expertly arranged. In London was Norman Hezekiah Davis. President Hoover's Man-about-Europe and now President Roosevelt's Ambassador-at-Large. He called on Prime Minister MacDonald. In Washington two days later Ambassador Lindsay was summoned to the State Department, handed a personal message from President Roosevelt to be transmitted to Prime Minister MacDonald. Excerpt...
...Norman W. Church's four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap's track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico...