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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drummer, was a pariah instead of a leader in the most powerful Administration in U. S. history. All he had, besides Louisiana, was the right to clown, to get beaten in a Sands Point washroom, to filibuster and to hurl invective. Yet last week the U. S. realized that save for Franklin Roosevelt, no other public figure could by his death produce so great a change in U. S. politics...
...colonial expedition." Early last week M. Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre...
Since membership in the League requires that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire...
Fall River, Mass.: ''Young infantile paralysis victims prepared to draw lots today to determine who should be the first to receive serum which may save their lives. . . . The opening of schools has been postponed...
...political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...