Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train one night Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to New London. There on the Thames, aboard the Sequoia, he entertained his old friend Felix Frankfurter. To the Presidential ear the Harvard professor confided that he had been asked to furnish a list of important works that he had never read. Dr. Frankfurter's list...
...always on hand is Gardner Cowles. He comes to his office, reads the papers or has them read to him, listens to reports, smokes countless cigarets, prods his sons for circulation and more circulation. Two "G. C." maxims: ''Take the subscriptions and let the street sales go." . . . ''A mediocre paper with a good circulation department can put out of business the best newspaper in the land with a poor circulation department...
...Senior Cowles plays bridge at the Des Moines Club every day after lunch. He hates poker, likes popcorn, has his wife read to him in the evenings while he plays solitaire...
...commanders in the trenches below signaled "Cease firing" to their troops. The little brown men dropped their guns, picked up drums and horns to serenade one another. In La Paz and Asuncion, the women conning the casualty lists for the last few days of the war, had plenty to read. In Bolivia the Government, faced with the return of soldiers who had been led to defeat, looked shaky...
...Koinange, is the son of Koinange Wa Mbiyu, which means Koinange, son of Mbiyu. In Bantu "koinange" means "dancer," Koinange Wa Mbiyu, chief of 800,000 Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...