Word: sends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator...
...Ethiopia as C. P. F. No. 2. "Ethiopia has about as much political reality today as Carthage-which the Italians also destroyed," wrote Mr. Gunther. "The 'Emperor' Haile Selassie is about as concrete a living political force today as Beowulf or General Grant. Yet the Ethiopians still send delegations to Geneva, the 'country' is considered a member of the League of Nations, and the great powers-except Italy, which seized it- appear still to recognize it as an independent state. Pure fiction...
Also voted last night were an appropriation of $50 for the relief of universities in China, and a decision to send a Harvard representative to a conference of Eastern College Student Councils at Cornell this week...
...only unhappy feature of the day from a California standpoint," says the Times, "was Yale's surprising defeat by Harvard. It has been reliably reported before to-day's game that Berkeley authorities intended to send Yale the Rose Bowl bid this evening. But the Harvards spoiled all this...
...their birth a year ago. Publicity given the flying caravan sent Latin American officials scurrying to drag out copies of the conventions. Informed by the U. S. diplomatic representative of the expected caravan visit, one Foreign Minister exclaimed: "My God! We had forgotten all about those treaties. I shall send them to Congress immediately...