Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party's gubernatorial nominee, was squeezed out by 32-year-old progressive Harold Stassen. Net result of the hyphen primary was to leave Minnesota's conservatives thoroughly dissatisfied, make it doubly necessary for the New Deal to support Governor Benson lest Republicans get an inner track on Minnesota's eleven 1940 electoral votes. Jubilated Elmer A. Benson: "It shows very clearly that those...
...Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect a succession of these incidents...
That it pays to be a good neighbor was indicated last week by solid statistics. Partly as a result of neighborliness, largely because of the reciprocal trade treaties of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U. S. exports to Latin America as a whole increased last year from 40% to 90% in value. Those pessimists who have believed that the totalitarian European states were gaining political and economic influence south of the Rio Grande were surprised to hear that in the same period Nazi Germany's trade increased less than 30%, Fascist Italy...
...beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment for those who have enjoyed its star's efforts to adjust himself to even less agreeable circumstances...
...both her talent for wearing expensive clothes and her as yet imperfect English. Taking no unnecessary chances, the company assigned as her director Henry Koster, who in the first two Durbin pictures managed to emphasize the star's girlish naivete without letting it get completely out of hand. Result is a pleasingly preposterous little fable which, while more sophisticated than any of Miss Durbin's contributions, rivals them in its fresh and energetic charm...