Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the smoke, thunder, and hard-feeling caused by the reorganization plans for the Student Council has calmed down and the new constitution is on the way to being adopted, it is possible to make a sane estimate of the position which the Council should hold in Harvard College...
...Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which the New Deal can answer only by "the smoke screen of personalities" and the "squirt gun of propaganda...
...European wiseacres believed a story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop had banged his fist on Mr. Anthony Eden's desk and uttered threats. The most painstaking and detached analysis of the situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister...
...supplying gas to Montreal and creosoting ties for U. S. railroads. Both Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke. His process caught the eye of Pittsburgh's late Henry Bedinger Rust, who took his ideas for exploiting the Koppers patents to the Mellon family offices...
...open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose the battle that lost the South the Civil War? Many a Southerner, many a Northerner, has answered yes. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad, in what is the first life of Longstreet ever written, grant him a cold acquittal...