Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aplomb never leaves Squire Baldwin, but Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was visibly nervous as he denied that Britain had put pressure on the radical French Cabinet to force them to propose the Neutrality Agreement barring arms shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that...
Sitting back in his executive chair in the Chicago office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems...
Dick Shaughnessy. 14-year-old son of a Boston sporting-goods dealer: The all-gauge championship, No. 1 event of the National Skeet Championships; with a score of 248 out of 250, one better than his closest rival, 17-year-old Bobby Stack of Beverly Hills, Calif., who set a record by breaking 150 targets in a row; in St. Louis...
...kind, the Bishop Hill colony left many memorabilia in its wake. The original church, school, blacksmith shop, inn, town hall remain. Thanks to a tipsy Civil War veteran who turned to painting because it was less arduous than horseshoeing, a gallery of 93 oils, among them a stack of portraits of the men who built Bishop Hill was also left behind...
Finally the Treaty provides that some Egyptian troops and Egyptian colonists may enter the Sudan. In 1924 eight Egyptians assassinated the British Sirdar General Sir Lee Stack and in punishment Britain excluded Egyptian soldiers from the Sudan, closed it to Egyptian farmers who wished to move in, and exacted from the Egyptian Government cash damages of $2,500,000 (TIME...