Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State, and, two years later, Minister to China...
Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility...
Meanwhile, in ironic contrast, Cleveland's businesses were booming towards 1929 levels. Yet the city could not tax to raise funds for relief without empowering legislation from the State General Assembly. And Governor John W. Bricker refused to convene the Assembly...
Some of the World could understand why the Soviet Government might be apprehensive. Leningrad, industrial and railroad centre of North Russia, birthplace of the Soviet State, with nearly as many inhabitants as all of Finland together, was within artillery range of a country which 20 years ago swarmed with enemy Germans threatening invasion. But most of the World could not forgive the crude cynical fabrication of incidents, lame excuses and low-comedy lies to prove how the mighty but peace-loving Union of Soviet...
Such hostility, the Premier continued, was "incompatible" with the Finnish-Russian non-aggression pact. Therefore: "The Soviet Government deems itself compelled to state that from this date it considers itself free from the obligations undertaken under the non-aggression pact concluded between the U. S. S. R. and Finland and systematically violated by the Government of Finland. Accept, Mr. Minister, assurances of my perfect respect." Meanwhile, three new border incidents were reported exclusively by the Red Army...