Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
...onetime husband of the widow of its U. S. Hero John Reed, Ambassador Bullitt quickly became the most favored of capitalist envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial friendship...
...undergraduates does not represent an adequate payment for services rendered, opportunities given. Only in carrying the ideals of the College out into the world, in showing by their own services to the world the value of what they have received, can the graduates of this institution make just return...
With a man she had nursed through a long illness at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, eloped pretty Nun Manuela Mary Adamic, 25, sister of Author Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dynamite). Observed Author Adamic in Manhattan : "A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength...
...same period, Sandburg writing his colloquial children's tales, Rootabaga Stories, Masters his cycle of thesis novels. Both wrote biographies of Lincoln, Sandburg picturing him as the greatest U. S. hero, Masters seeing him as the wrecker of the Union. Last week these two poets signalized their return to verse with volumes of tributes to the people. Saluting them for different reasons, each had a different crowd in mind...