Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...
Last week a new group rose to attack the bill on the floor of the House. Their plaint was not its size but its blanket appropriation of one and a half billions to be spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn...
Finally Leader Rayburn rose in desperation and announced that "within the hour" he had been in conversation with the President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
Marshaling these votes, the British leadership last week was out to remove foreign troops from Spain. Word had come from Moscow that Russia would recall her aviators and military instructors from the Spanish front if Fascist states did likewise. In Paris, Deputy Leon Archimbaud rose in the Chamber to announce that 1,000 French volunteers had been repatriated. British and French agents in Germany reported that Adolf Hitler had lost all stomach for the Spanish adventure (always unpopular with the German General Staff) and would be glad to pull out of it completely. The strategy of Britain (and France) last...
...were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...