Word: overent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet. Seven years ago next March Herbert Hoover left the White House. On a grey, gusty afternoon he stood stoically on the rear platform of the train that was to take him away from Washington, facing a subdued crowd that had gathered to see him leave. His pale face was...
Republicans eager to steal the New Deal's thunder minimized the Hoover prestige, magnified the Hoover unpopularity. They dismissed Hoover's county organizations, said it was just the ex-President going round and round in little circles. And in California, even Hoover aides and allies indignantly denied that...
The house was quiet. Mr. Doell went through the carefully furnished rooms on the lower floor. Without pausing to admire the objets d'art from the Orient and the Near East, Mr. Doell mounted the stairs. Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a...
Up from their coastal bases on the Italian peninsula last week rose the dripping hulls of 80 Savoia-Marchetti seaplane bombers. Their glossy-headed young pilots turned them north, over Ostmark, over Bohemia-Moravia, over German Poland and East Prussia and up the Baltic to the besieged shores of Finland...
All in all, it was a mass flight of first historic importance. Not because of its distance (over 1,000 miles). Not because it brought invaluable and much needed help to the Finns and lots of trouble to the Russians, who are short on seaplanes. But because it cast the...