Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salaries of his secretary and purchasing counsellor at $5,000 each (La Follette paid Duncan $4,800), and, in ink as green as the suits he affects, hand-signed 100 notarial certificates, which Governors usually rubberstamp. Newshawks got the impression that green Governor Heil had yet made no real headway with his economy budget, would not have it ready before its due date, February...
...Protector" Daladier was "honored" to be received in white-walled Bardo Palace by plump, thin-bearded, 76-year-old Sidi Ahmed II, Bey of Tunis, figurehead ruler of the protectorate. Slender Erik Labonne, French Resident General, the real ruler of Tunisia, stayed in the background. As M. Daladier crossed the imaginary boundary line of the Bey's palace grounds he forgot to observe a 500-year-old custom which requires all visitors, high or low to bow. An attaché quickly reminded the Premier, who halted, backed up, bowed...
...only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge was at the top because he had never met any real opposition...
From a college European history: "Among them Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States own or control something like three-fourths of the earth's surface. . . . They constitute the real world powers and are the Haves. . . . Japan, Italy and Germany . . . although territorially no match for the four giants . . . are inhabited by spirited peoples by no means willing to accept their present inferiority as if it had been ordered for all time by a divine decree...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...