Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel a decided abstract period coming on right...
...noted the emergence of a new flock of U. S. goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told, by the U. S. Supreme Court, "that they [lawyers] did not know what they had been talking about" in questioning TVA's constitutionality...
...with Soviet Russia in 1920, when Soviet forces under the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachavsky pursued the Polish Army to the gates of Warsaw, the young officer was first a colonel of horse artillery, then commander on the Lithuanian-White Russian frontier. Later he became military attache in Paris. That period in Colonel Beck's career was ended abruptly by the French, who asked him to leave. Stories differ on why the French disliked the Colonel. One report was that the Colonel was too curious about French military secrets; another connected his name with that of a German blonde...
...picture is conceived in the story department, goes through a period of gestation, has labor pains in the photographic room, and comes to life on the screen. But it is the animator who endows the picture with its life spirit," Feild stated...
...Third period -- Dartmouth, Walsh (Foster) 14:13; Dartmouth, Walsh, (Foster, Merriam...