Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt said that he had been thinking of much the same thing: he had four sons (James, 31; Elliott, 29; Franklin Jr., 25; John, 23) and the law of averages would hit him harder than Maury Maverick. With a froglike grin, Mayor Maverick said that he hoped the President sent Elliott first...
...through Paris-as refugees moved from one part of France to another-was at the rate of over 5,000 people per day. Since people have to carry baggage even in wartime and many of the refugees are old men, women or children, husky porters who might have been sent to the Maginot Line were still sweating in Paris stations...
While repentant WMCA was still standing in the corner, NBC last week also had a transgression to worry over. It had broadcast word of the departure (also blazoned in the press) of the French liner "Champlain, and had sent the news out over international short-wave in several languages, including one which might be understood by any submariner now in business. At week's end the Champlain was reported to have reached an unrevealed haven, and NBC mightily relieved, resolved henceforth to keep such marine intelligence off the air entirely, regardless of how the press treated...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...
...years after Columbus discovered America, Niccolo Machiavelli, younger son of an impoverished middle-class family of Florence, became a clerk in its government. For 14 years he sorted ambassadors' reports, paid secret agents, inspected fortresses and accounts. Sometimes the Signory sent Machiavelli on diplomatic missions. At the Vatican he began his firsthand study of power politics under such masters as Pope Alexander Borgia and his alleged son Cesare. Cesare Borgia was Machiavelli's model for the Prince...