Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department, and the eagerness of Secretary Hull to feel that everything had been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character for a few days in his world-popular role...
...spluttered at this open flouting of their predictions. "Disastrous to the entire cotton-growing South!" cried Senator George. "Cotton shippers won a great victory. . . . The plan will be very confusing!" snapped Senator Bankhead. When the market price of cotton slumped nearly 1? a Ib. on the news, their outcry rose to a roar. "I am embarrassed and confused!" exclaimed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton. To get enough votes...
Neither Prime Minister Baldwin nor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain believes in taking either Press or Public into the remotest outskirts of his confidence. After a five-hour sitting the Cabinet rose. Again only Scot MacDonald had anything to say. "I am very cheery and quiet and cool," he burbled. "We have a very clear mind as to what is to be done...
...Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went to jail. Bugle Ann's collar and bones were found far away, making it clear that Terry had not killed the animal. Suddenly her unmistakable voice rose out over the hills at night, giving rise to stories of a ghostly hound that would race forever. Spring Davis was pardoned, returned to hear the sound he recognized, learned that his son's sweetheart had been responsible for Bugle Ann's death. He settled down to a happy...
...good fortune was only beginning. Chardon made her a star. To surround her with glamour, he let it be known that she had been the mistress of Camilo el Durqui, Argentine sportsman, who supposedly had been lost on a transatlantic flight-the same eccentric, grocery-delivering millionaire. As Coralee rose to fame on this hoax-"all Paris twittered over her aura of mystery"-Camilo el Durqui returned, uninjured but angry...