Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When that condition exists everybody knows we are getting along all right in America...
...people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner...
From the most reactionary Deputy on the Right to the most radical on the Left came loud, sustained applause. Said Socialist Leader Blum: "We approve entirely." The Right reciprocated by cheering a Communist Deputy who seconded the Premier's stand. On the question of defense, at any rate, France was politically united...
...crooked streets, testing sharp turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus got final instructions in how to cheer. (Raise hat, give three lusty cheers. Then hold hat in the right hand over the left breast as Their Majesties pass by.) Cameraddicts were warned that they might: 1) take no flashlight pictures; 2) make no attempts to influence Their Majesties to watch the birdie. St. Maurice Valley Sportsman Jean Crete and a corps of assistants angled for 450 speckled trout...
...year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation of Bolivian oil across her territory provided the expropriated fields were not returned to private owners. Paraguay agreed to give Bolivia: 1) a 325-ft. pipeline right-of-way across the Chaco battlefields to the Paraguay River; 2) two free zones for a refinery and a shipping point; 3) a 3O-year monopoly to supply Paraguayan oil requirements; 4) freedom from taxes and levies on shipments from the Bolivian refinery. Since Paraguay uses little oil, main purpose...