Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARY ROSE HARRISON...
Sweeping Sir Herbert aside, other M. P.s rose to picture the "menace" represented by Japan's 42% increase in exports of cotton piece goods in the past three years, during which time similar British exports have fallen...
...cold white fog that rose from the Rhine all sounds seemed magnified. Official witnesses and a handful of newshawks turned up their coat collars and shivered in the Cologne prison yard. Down below the Rhine steamers hooted mournfully. A door clanked. Out marched brownshirts, prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt...
...William Currie, 57, Wartime Commander-in-chief of the Canadian forces in France, principal and vice-chancellor since 1920 of McGill University; of pneumonia and cerebral thrombosis; in Montreal. Onetime teacher, realtor, insurance man, he commanded a volunteer regiment when War came, took an infantry brigade to France. He rose rapidly, won fame at the second battle of Ypres where his men faced poison gas for the first time, became Commander-in-chief in 1917. After his triumphal return, there were whispers that he sacrificed his men in a vainglorious desire to have the Canadians fire the last shot...
...Hoover's Federal Farm Board, onetime vice chairman of the War Industries Board and head of the Allied Purchasing Commission; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale, near Chicago. Born on a Wisconsin farm, he had only three months' schooling when he got a job with International Harvester, rose to a position which no other man outside of Chicago's McCormick family has held. A huge, blunt man, he made Washington hostesses and diplomats uneasy, advised his critics to go to Hell...