Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...
...Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long been troubled because it has not been able to build its "Chief" up with the sort of human-interest publicity which proved so helpful to Calvin Coolidge. Chief obstacle has been President Hoover's refusal to allow...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...
Crusader Takahashi is a bachelor. He lives in an empty barnlike structure which has not been troubled by scrubwomen for months. Reporter Okuyama found him propped up in bed reading a book. Other furniture of the bedroom was a desk, a reed organ or harmonium, a bucket, a pile of books...
...years I lived in the United States," said Mr. Takahashi. amiably waving his interviewer to a seat at the organ. "I returned to this country in 1922. My strongest impression of my native land was that the children did not use handkerchiefs. In one morning I saw 65 schoolchildren giving ample evidence of this. On the following day I visited a primary school and found that 200 of the thousand pupils had colds but no handkerchiefs. So I started my campaign. . . . But I've got to be going, it's time for my morning round. Haven't missed...