Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries of American Art, most extensive U. S. show ever held in Europe (TIME, May 23), drew bigger crowds than any recent Paris exhibition, attentive critical scrutiny of some 200 paintings, 80 prints, 250 movie stills. Gallic critics spoke warmly but vaguely of the show's passionate interest, weaseled on criticism of individual artists, noted that in architecture the U. S. genius was best expressed...
Sending his regrets to a committee which urged him to run for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Son-Secretary James Roosevelt last week replied: No, thank you. He spoke of a "desire, through study and experience, to develop further my knowledge of governmental affairs before considering the possibility of elective office. I hope that the future will afford me an opportunity to complete my studies at first hand and to offer my contribution to the welfare of my fellow citizens...
...includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria, which border Palestine on the north and northeast. A lot of Palestine's tougher Arabs come from those two mandates. The fence will be completed in August, announced Sir John. Almost as he spoke, a band of Arab terrorists swooped down on a section of the fence, dubbed Tegart's Wall, ripped it up and carted it across the frontier into Lebanon...
...pushing; they got along like cat and dog. In 1925. Frank Dan, just defeated by Jimmy Walker for the job of mayor of New York, went back hurt and angry to the job Elisha was all set to take over. Their row on policy was terrific; they never spoke to each other again...
...setting blazoned with swastikas, at Fallersleben in the heart of the German Reich, Führer Adolf Hitler fortnight ago surmounted the cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German...