Word: pols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests drew their own drinks, at 4? apiece. Seven years later when Apollos Smith built a less Spartan 20-room lodge on Upper Saint Regis Lake he had changed his name through "Pol" to a dignified "Paul" and had become a substantial Adirondack character...
...business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government pol icy toward self-help co-operatives nearly wrecks it. Sig Soren (now happily mar ried to the girl who escaped from the white slavers) visits Washington, confers with President Roosevelt, and the book ends with his wondering what stand the President will take on the co-operative question...
...opinion was not yet ready when Sir Samuel signed it in Paris (TIME, Dec. 16 & 23). Last week not peace but a capitulation to II Duce was made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden amid cries in the House of Commons that His Majesty's Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind, because in fact the Empire has now scrapped all reliance on the League of Nations and is arming at breakneck speed-not necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe...
...Jacobean Lit. Carolin Lit. Eng. Prosidy Eng. & Slav. Lit. Novel 17th & 19th Cent. Poetry & Comp. Contemporary Lit. American Lit. Composition Fine Arts Geol. Sci. 4 2 4 10 1-2 German 2 Government 17-23 6 5-7 3 6 8 7-8 Int'nat'l Relations Federal Gov. & Pol. Theory Political Theory Eut. Pol. Institu. Party Politics & Federal Gov. Int. Fin. Rela. Federal Gov. Govt. Regula. of Business International Law & Relations History 47 18 9-10 16 7 13 10 American Modern Eng. Modern Europe Greek American Mod. Eur. Fr. & Intellectual Intellect. Hist. European American American Latin American English...
...leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot was asked if he talked politics. "Not a pol," said...