Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...older I grow and the more I read history, the more I reflect upon the influence of the men and events of one generation upon the life and thought of the generations that follow...
...what last-minute hope there might be for their man. Their reward was a 74-to-1 vote for Knox at the Pennsylvania delegation's morning caucus. That made the Vandenberg acclamation impossible. The rest was easy. At the Convention, Governor Bridges nominated Colonel Knox, Chairman Snell read the Vandenberg message, and the acclaim fixed for the latter went to the former...
...back yard playing with the two youngest children, Nancy Jo, 3, and Jack, 2, for the cameramen. Grandmother Cobb took the children to her house for the night, came back to listen in her son-in-law's study while the platform was being read...
...Legislature's accountant, had the job of depositing. By dealing with his son, branch manager of the Banque Canadienne Nationale, he was able to get a special interest rate that not only paid him his 3% but let the Government have 1½% too. Last week M. Duplessis read a letter from Father Antoine to his son complaining of the annual "annoyance" given him by Government bank inspectors who did not at once understand this arrangement. If this nagging did not stop, said Father Antoine, he might switch his account to another bank. To these revelations, Antoine Taschereau last...
...hand in Canton and South China which she already holds in Peiping and North China, the so-called "National Government of the Republic of China" at Nanking would be squeezed between two red-hot tongs of Japanese Might. Last week's developments reduced to absurdity an edifying statement read to the House of Commons by Britain's polite Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in which Japan was censured for abetting Japanese smugglers to evade the Chinese customs, at the expense of law-abiding British traders...