Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House then rose for the Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example...
Instead of religious schools government-controlled secular education was expanded. Boy Scout movements were encouraged, the army was taught to read and write. Mohammedan law was largely nullified. The vexing problem of land titles was solved, one major result being that suddenly vast, rich areas became known as "crown property"-i.e., were simply taken by the Shah...
...Farouk's hand-picked Premier, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, read the ten-minute Speech from the Throne, Farouk gazed on a Chamber far more amenable to his will than the one he inherited on his Coronation. Although above party politics according to the Constitution, the ambitious boy-King has booted out the Premier of the majority Wafdist (nationalist) Party, Mustafa Nahas Pasha, and dissolved the Parliament. The Wafd, torn by internal dissension, split into two groups, a Nahas Pasha bloc and the insurgents who call themselves Saadists or "true Wafdists...
...Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian, French, German and Greek alphabets, reads people's minds. Interviewed by a sportswriter, George unhesitatingly predicted the winner of the Kentucky Derby: Stagehand...
...drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists call Capitalism, capitalists call civilization. Most of those who saw Panic agreed that it was more theatrics than theatre, felt that it only confirmed the general rule that verse-plays should be read, not seen-but also felt that in it Verse-Playwright MacLeish had made some good, if confused, topical points...