Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write the statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World promptly turned up the fact that G. O. Pressagent West was admitted to President Hoover's press conference in open violation of the rule excluding all but accredited newsmen...
...Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
Argentina. Loudest alarums, most violent excursions came from Buenos Aires where a timorous cabinet suddenly decided that a military plot threatened the life of ancient, eccentric President Hippolito Irigoyen (nearly 80 years old, though he looks ten years younger). They persuaded him to mobilize the Army & Navy. Machine guns were mounted on the roof of the cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only...
Through the dingy parts of London, beloved of authors and others, pleasantly rambles this latest novel of J. B. Priestley. Characters and plot are both unexciting and vaguely familiar, but their simplicity is followed out with such a happy fertility of notions that one spends hour upon hour completely pleased. There is much reminiscent of Dombeys and Forsytes, but this book is content with a more humble standard of artistic verity, and if for that reason the thousands are less appreciative, the tens of thousands will be the more delighted...
...Howard's. When Ivy came into his room later to bring Howard salvation, the love of God and the love of Howard became hysterically confused, and Ivy was lost once more. Playwright Nicholson uses the person of Carl, strapping young Salvationist, to make his drama go the Thais plot one better...