Word: tains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Wilford H. ("Cap-tain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Whiz Bang, Hooey, True Confessions, and the better mannered Amateur Golfer and Sportsmen's Magazine; from Annette Fawcett. Charge: infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite...
...Eighty-five men, no women, were White House banquet guests that night. In the State Dining Room, President Hoover was the big centre nail of the horseshoe table. On his right Premier Laval, left Ambassador Paul Claudel of France, nearby Marshal Pétain. A large assortment of bigwig publisher-editors included Arthur Brisbane, who wrote in his next Today: "Who sees only 'peasant ancestry' in the face of Laval would see only a peasant woman in the Mona Lisa face. . . . Don't play poker with him. . . . The President looked weary...
...particularly agreeable to me to pronounce these words in New York in the presence of Marshal Pétain, the most illustrious of our soldiers. France is resolutely attached to peace, which can only be founded upon organization and security...
...already accepted the power given him by the machine, this vicarious power that moves mountains, that flies beneath the sea and through the air, that transports him so swiftly from place to place, as real power. He has ac cepted it as his own power. ... To at tain real power, of the mind, of the spirit, is a long slow process. Why should man go to all this trouble when he can so easily attain this vicarious power?" "It is a factual age, and in a factual age women will always rule. In the world of fact every woman...
...backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...