Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark & Co., the public had to make out last week with some informative sideshows...
...attache in Washington, "do you provide yourself with a jazz band to attract attention?" Accorded full attention, the Embassy proceeded last week to itemize recent French orders for some $65,000,000 worth of U. S. military planes: 100 Curtiss fighters (added to 100 ordered last year); 200 North American advanced trainers; 115 Glenn Martin bombers; 100 replicas of the new Douglas bomber which crashed four weeks ago and revealed the presence of a French buying mission...
...president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...drafters of the 1937 Neutrality Act which prohibits sales to belligerents other than on a dockside cash & carry basis. This camp also includes such public spokesmen as Mr. Herbert Hoover, Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who is suspicious of all foreigners, and Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina who wears a feather in his hat to show that he is against all isms but Americanism...
Just before Barcelona fell, nine trucks loaded to the gunwales with gold bars, precious stones, gold and silver plate, gem-encrusted religious vessels and jewelry rolled out of the city and headed north. This gleaming freight, most of it confiscated from jewelry shops and churches, was an important part of the war chest of the Loyalist Government...