Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Antwerp last week arrived pictures of Leo Frenssen, a surprise victor in Belgium's recent municipal elections; bounding over the cane (see cut) by means of which he proved to Antwerp voters that at 58 he is still a man of no mean physical prowess. Councilman Frenssen was considered a harmless crank, hipped on the passe tenets of U. S. technocracy, until he and his "Technocrat Party" won 21,000 votes, enough to entitle them to six seats in the Antwerp municipal council. Since new councilmen will not take their seats until after January 1, perplexed Antwerp...
During his recent fantastic but successful electioneering campaign, self-styled Technocrat Frenssen continued his latest method of making his living-peddling coffee from a tricycle. Last week he was still peddling coffee, displayed on his tricycle a sign reading: "Electors, I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...wrote a British zoologist during the recent European crisis to Dr. Leslie Clarence Dunn, professor of zoology at Columbia University. So across the Atlantic, to the enviable security of the U. S., voyaged eleven black, smooth-haired rats...
Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
...rest of the votors who switched from the Democratic to the Republican side may have done so either because disgusted with the recent course of the New Deal or because disappointed with the failure of the administration attempts in the recent primaries to strengthen its grip on the Democratic party...