Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Mrs. Mesta's first evening in Luxembourg, a torchlight procession, including a brass band, appeared beneath the legation's windows. The band played Anchors Aweigh and the crowd sang a greeting to Madame la ministre. The bandleader made a speech, which was followed by the Star-Spangled...
When the smuggling story broke in Mexico City, Beteta was unexpectedly faced with the possibility of a financial panic, touched off by a run on the Banco de Comercio. Said the pro-Communist El Popular: "Every patriotic depositor should withdraw all funds at once." Beteta' asked editors and financial...
Coolidge's Vice President and now board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear...
Five weeks after he touched off a nationwide controversy by charging her with "anti-Catholic" bias, New York's Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman dropped in at Hyde Park to see Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for 45 minutes of friendly conversation and a cooling glass of iced tea.
Skating Cinemactress Sonja Henie and Socialite-Aviator Winthrop Gardiner Jr. took off in his brand-new plane for a Long Island weekend, leaving a slipstream of elopement rumors. Headlined New York's Daily News: SONJA, GUY FLY; TIE?