Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Carr, 50, of Colorado, round-faced, popular lawyer, U.S. District Attorney under Herbert Hoover. He had to be drafted...
Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...
...admitted it was impossible to divide the country into satisfactory economic, political, racial units. His Majesty's Government there on abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should they fail to agree, the British Government hinted, a settlement might be imposed...
...tell you for certain that this is the breakup, the cataclysm, the drop-curtain on the world. . . . In the Abbey they are still marking the places in the hymnbooks, oblivious of the fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera...
...special train has been chartered by the University Travel Company for students going to Yale on Saturday. Leaving the South Station at 8.15 o'clock Saturday morning, it will arrive in New Haven at 11.30 o'clock. Round-trip fare...