Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy at its best, adapted to 1936, is his profession, and with Sir Robert at their elbow a succession of British Foreign Secretaries have finally seen the facts of British weakness and the necessity of most painfully kowtowing to Italy and Germany until Britain shall have Might again. In recent weeks, to watch Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, strolling with Sir Robert was to have the vivid impression of a nervous and doubtful youth comparatively safe in the hands of a robust British statesman...
...after Governor Landon pledged himself in his acceptance speech to purge relief of politics (see p. 9), acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams dismissed seven Oklahoma WPA officials for exerting political pressure on relief workers in the recent Democratic primary, in which anti-New Dealer Senator Thomas P. Gore met defeat (TIME, July 20). Administrator Williams then trumpeted: "I defy anyone to show me where anyone on relief has been politically coerced. . . . We have received instructions from the President to keep this thing out of politics and we're going...
King Edward later told President Lebrun that the Spanish crisis and the recent attempt at assassination (see above) had caused him to cancel all plans for his widely heralded vacation at the Riviera villa of old-time U. S. Actress Maxine Elliott...
...themselves as potent opinion-makers in any election year. Although the 1936 Presidential campaign officially got under way only last week, U. S. men of God were already assuming their roles in it. Editorialized The Christian Evangelist, organ of the Disciples of Christ: "We do not recall any other recent Presidential contest in which the Ins and the Outs tried so vigorously to capture for their respective parties the sanctions and blessings of organized religion...
...negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked it with a more recent edition belonging to a Navy Department friend. He insisted he had never received a cent for any of this material, nor had he obtained the employment he sought. Protested this onetime Naval officer: "Whatever I gave them, it was nothing that could injure the United States. . . . After...