Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title of saboteur-or-speculator was thereby conferred on no less a person than Robert Alphonso Taft, son of William Howard Taft, who has commenced suit for $1.07 against the Government, for interest on a gold-clause bond...
...loudly protested that Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier Mussolini...
Adolf Hitler last week became the first Dictator frankly to employ a double. Impersonating the Realmleader, a pudgy-fingered, smudge-mustached person officially opened the new motor highway from Holzkirchen to Munich. Suddenly the crowd recognized Dictator Hitler standing unobtrusively a few yards from his double and good-natured German cheers were given first for one, then for the other...
...pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...
Then the Commission ordered a U. S. marshal to go forth and fetch Mr. Jones in person. The marshal tramped around Washington all day inquiring at every hotel. Mr. Jones was not to be found...