Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Head of the Democratic Party spent most of last week being President of the U. S., but not without firing two more hot shots into two more State primary contests. To newshawks clustered around his White House desk he vehemently read, and adopted as his own words, an editorial from the rip-snortingly New Dealish New York Post entitled "Why the President Interferes."* This explained: "These primaries will determine to a large extent the makeup of the next Congress. And that, in turn, will determine whether or not the President can keep his campaign promises to the people...
...Public Works Minister Ludovic Oscar Frossard. These two members of the Union Socialist-Republican Party were promptly replaced by the Premier with two other members of their party, new Labor Minister Charles Pomaret and new Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie. Speculation at once began: would the Union Socialists read Pomaret and de Monzie out of its ranks for standing with Daladier...
...Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur Solly-Flood...
...living on collective farms. The three largest centres for Cárdenas Collectivism are the vast La Laguna cotton districts, the wheat lands of Sonora, and the henequen region in the Yucatan Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody in Yucatan's capital felt wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools and weapons...
...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...