Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward 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...
While the refueling went on, the President had three hours of fishless fishing in a whale boat. Then the swift voyage southward was resumed and the newshawks riding in the Indianapolis' wake racked their brains and filled the ether with radioed chit-chat about the President's initiation by Neptune's Court when crossing the Equator...
DEATH IN THE DEEP SOUTHWard Green-Stackpole ($2). "Neither a crime novel nor a mystery novel," laid in an anonymous Southern city, in which an unassuming New York teacher in a business college is convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering his beautiful 15- year-old student...
...Assassins reveals a wide range of technical accomplishment. In such poems as The Dolls or Alexandria the poet's lines and images are dry, economical, with more than a suggestion of the exactness and finality of some of the verses of T. S. Eliot. But in Going Southward, from which the lines above are quoted, the images are tropical and luxurious, the racing, unbroken, drumlike beat of the poem effectively suggesting the panic and horror of the world...
...Franco and General Mola were now in North Spain strategically just about where they had expected to be seven weeks ago. They had counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo Caballero but also Generalissimo Francisco Franco had "just begun to fight"' -with approximately...