Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things the convention showed: 1) there was still plenty of life in an organization which could take such a beating, 2) factionalism had taken a heavy toll. Its membership was down from a peak 381,000 to a claimed 172,000, money on hand from $428,000 a year and a half ago to $58,000 at last year...
...last week from the Senate Cotton bloc. South Carolina's Purge-proof Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had another solution : to give farmers parity payments instead of loans after the present crop season, release the Government's holdings in 1940. And Alabama's John Bankhead had still another: let farmers buy back their hocked cotton for 3? a pound, sell it at a quick profit, promise to reduce their acreage correspondingly...
...Chamberlain began mildly repeating his protest of last autumn that he was a "man of peace to the depth of my soul." He repeated his oft-expressed views that any attempt to dominate the world must still be resisted. Then he recalled Herr Hitler's pledge (to him and to the world) that Nazi Germany had no further territorial ambitions in Europe. Said the Prime Minister bluntly: "Those assurances have now been thrown to the winds absolutely." Said he in words that will either alter the course of European history or will for years be thrown back contemptuously into...
...March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time in 984 days Spain had peace...
Most sentimental and (next to the Open) toughest U. S. golf tournament is the Masters', played on Bobby Jones's "dream course" in Augusta, Ga. Most golfers hope that Bobby Jones, now 37, paunchy and a 40-to-1 shot, may still win this tournament. As the sixth annual Masters' began last week, favorites were Open Champion Ralph Guldahl, Hillbilly Sam Snead and lanky Henry Picard, last year's winner...