Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time had come, decided the Democratic Presidential nominee last week, to break his silence on the Red issue, simultaneously strike a hard blow at his prime journalistic foe. A new Hearst campaign against him, he learned, was to begin on Sunday. Few hours after his return to the White House from Harvard on Saturday, the President issued a strategic statement over the signature of his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early...
This wisecrack is credited with depriving New Hampshire's Governor Henry Styles Bridges of any chance to be nominated for Vice President. Thus Republican Bridges became a solid obstacle between Republican Moses and the latter's return to the Senate, from which he was swept in the Democratic landslide...
Meanwhile Britain's press, resuming the regular Fleet Street routine on King Edward's return, generally told last week how distressed His Majesty appeared as he looked at pictures of working class slum houses shown to him at a new Housing Exhibition. His comment: "Pretty grim!" At sight of a poster reading Rents Still Too High, His Majesty nodded and inspected maps showing where they are too high-among other places in areas privately owned by King Edward. With what British papers described as a "grimace," His Majesty pointed out his own Duchy of Cornwall from which...
...problems: getting shoes for his men, remembering the amount of water necessary for a company in a front line trench, memorizing pages of official instruction on trench warfare between bombardments. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer told how Sassoon (called Sherston in the narrative) revolted against this routine, refused to return to the front, demanded that he be court-martialed because he could not free his mind of the conviction that the War was ''being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." Refusing to court-martial a distinguished poet, exemplary officer...
...Monday second year students will return. About 330 are expected to appear which is also well in excess of the 1935 figure...