Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours, no sign from the conclave. Then, at noon, the first sfumata-a curl of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney -was seen. By the black smoke the watchers knew that no Pope had been elected during the two morning ballots...
Over the back bar in the saloon run by Antonio Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Galento in Orange, N. J. there hangs a sign saying: JOE LOUIS IS A BUM. Two-ton Tony Galento-a lumpy, hog-fat heavyweight who won a sort of succès d'estime last year by bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work...
...roommates have found the solution. At the appointed hour, they swoop down on him and drag him up to a sitting position. Several resounding slaps will cause his eyes to open. Suspended from the ceiling so that it hangs just in front of his nose is a large-lettered sign which reads: "GET UP, YOU STUPID...
Last week there was more Danzig trouble. At the Technical Institute in Danzig German students hung the sign: "POLES AND DOGS NOT ADMITTED." The Polish students' home was raided by Nazi gangs. The reaction was violent and sustained. At Poznań, Polish students retaliated by stoning a German library. At Warsaw 1,000 students paraded, shouted "Down with Germany!", made their way to the German Embassy on Pius XI Street and broke several windows. Even after Count Ciano arrived the anti-German demonstrations continued, and there were shouts of "Down with the Rome-Berlin axis...
...Roosevelt will participate in the meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...