Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only four Representatives rose to their feet. Thus the House last week adopted a resolution to investigate and determine whether the Townsend Plan to grant $200 a month pensions to all good oldsters was a racket, operated for the benefit of its sponsors...
...grand total is $35,000,000 spent during the past seven months for "special measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still more money for their departments. Meanwhile last week Foreign Secretary Eden replied to the recent Italian note in which Ambassador Dino Grandi argued that the British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is not justified under any part of the League Covenant and asked His Majesty's Government how they account...
...noblesse oblige at the Fair last week, Edward VIII's most widely reported act was his prompt reaction to a red rose thrown at his feet by a girl. Turning to Sir Reginald Henry Seymour, Equerry to His Majesty, the King said, "Pick up that flower and save...
...Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital Surgeon Charles M. Watson and his surgeon-son, James Rose Watson, swiftly ripped the left side of the butcher boy's chest open. Inside they could see blood pouring from the punctured heart into the pleural cavity wherein the left lung lay deflated...
...Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America," in the vaults of which future archeologists were to find the history...