Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debarking in the morning, his body clad in soiled seersucker, his mind in deep anxiety, this President who needs only a world peace crown to make him perhaps the most memorable ever, did not tell the press what he had done. When he reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt saw his State Department chiefs, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. Before dinner they also drafted and dispatched appeals to Adolf Hitler and Poland's President Ignace Moscicki. But Mr. Roosevelt warned correspondents that his next morning's press conference would probably yield no major news. At the conference, he referred almost...
...Great Britain has $2,000,000,000 invested in the Argentine (the U. S. about $700,000,000); the British own the biggest Argentine railroad; have customarily taken 40% of all Argentine exports. But where blandishments failed, disillusionment succeeded. Not Munich, but the cash register, disillusioned Senor Lamas, who saw that Britain was steadily shifting its agricultural trade to its colonies, that the Argentine was being set up only as a great emergency storehouse for wartime food supplies...
Byron, says Author Cecil, was no true romantic. He "had a robust Eighteenth-Century mocking kind of outlook." When she saw him, Caroline Lamb wrote: "Bad, mad and dangerous to know." A week later she wrote: "That beautiful pale face will be my fate." They went through a curious mock marriage, exchanged vows, signed a book as Byron and Caroline Byron. Byron's confidante in this and later affairs was William Lamb's mother, Lady Melbourne, whom he described as "the best friend I ever...
...think he saw my feelings." Gradually Caroline replaced literature with laudanum and brandy. Sometimes she broke $1,000 worth of china in a morning...
...Prophet Smith always insisted that Mormon troubles were payment for their sins. He rarely approved armed resistance, since God would or would not protect them as He saw...