Word: nya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the President stood exposed in a sort of showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator George William...
...formerly considered one of the most individualistic of enterprises, is being made a cooperative one by a government plan being directed by Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
Cried Hungarian Foreign Minister kán-yai Kálman Kánya: "The Hungarian Regent, during his coming visit to Rome, personally will convey to His Majesty, King Vittorio Emanuele III, Hungarian recognition of the Roman Empire in Ethiopia...
Foreign Minister Kánya hustled off by a midnight train to make sure that Budapest would give Count and Countess Ciano the most superlative of welcomes. They slept most of the night in their private car in Vienna Station, then slid comfortably off to be greeted at Hungary's border by deafening peasant cheers, repeated at every station. Alighting at Budapest amid such a wild ovation as only emotional Hungarians can outpour, Countess Ciano kissed a small Budapest lass with Latin warmth and cried, "This kiss means Italy's love for all Hungarian girls...
...Kansas City young citizens got first choice of auditorium seats to hear Nominee Roosevelt tell how the New Deal had restored Prosperity to Youth, praise NYA and CCC. In St. Louis, dedication of an unfinished Soldiers' Memorial diverted him momentarily to Peace, but in Chicago he swung back to his main theme in a speech addressed to his stanchest critics...