Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-election words of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, who sees eye-to-eye with Franklin Roosevelt on socio-political reform, "The political sashay has not been perfected." On the plus side of their tally sheets the Democrats could chalk up only California, North Dakota and Maryland, where they won previously Republican governorships; Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, where they staved off Senate losses, and New York where they safely retained both Senate seats and re-elected their Governor by a squeak...
With continued Soviet assistance vital to China's resistance, Chungking, the official capital, last week commemorated the 21st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on a scale not usually given to foreign celebrations. Newspapers featured side-by-side portraits of the Generalissimo, Stalin, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Lenin. At a mass meeting, Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Chinese Legislative Council, declared that China's only "true and real friend" was Russia. Premier Dr. H. H. Kung praised the achievements of the Russian Revolution, then berated the Chinese for not having sacrificed enough for victory...
...califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha Gökgen, one of his five adopted daughters, who is a Turkish Air Force pilot.* One grief-stricken friend. Salih Bozuk, put a pistol to his head, critically...
...first hearing of the suit in Milwaukee, Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger was so outraged at learning that consent decrees were being arranged on the side that he tossed out the case...
Nobody was surprised that markets should shoot off some fireworks after the first notable Republican success in eight years. But capitalistic exuberance was not solely responsible. Last week's market rise began before the voting, was stimulated by good business news on every side. Samples...