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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city with a motorcycle escort. Even President Vargas was startled by the U. S. President's democratic manners, when...
...Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced to the Allied commander alone, conferred secretly, then smugly announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt was getting sick with fear. Afraid to let the miserable Ragusa out of his sight, Caulaincourt dragged him to Alexander. Until five in the morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions were futile, for at eleven-thirty in the morning, when Caulaincourt...
...tended to inbreed and have lost the perspective that a broad intellectual outlook gives. For the Law School is not only a trade school for lawyers, but also a temple of legal scholarship, and the relation between the law and other fields of human endeavor should not be lost sight...
Greenbelt is the first of four such projects which Administrator Tugwell has launched throughout the land.* Cried the President to some of its 4,000 WPA builders: I've often seen the blueprints of Greenbelt. The actual sight far exceeds anything I ever dreamed of. I wish everyone in the country could see it. It is good to get people out in the country. It is an experiment that ought to be copied in every community in the United States...
...second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know. At any rate there was no tremor, no noise; nothing but the sudden sight of the red bulb, a mute witness. But the engine had not stopped at all. and did not stop...