Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of a conference of the world's strong men was credited to President Roosevelt three years ago. At that time the British did not take...
...Garner Bloc. Jack Garner's enemies are certainly right when they say he has bided his time. Time-biding is rule No. 1 in his lexicon for new Congressmen, to whom he says: "The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west...
...Cummings last year, marshals and deputies were required to be fingerprinted. Seven were discovered to have criminal records. Also, FBI started investigating the character of candidates for marshal jobs. Going further, Frank Murphy last week asked Congress to put all deputies into the Civil Service and require them to take physical examinations. The last was inspired by a certain 400-pounder in Illinois who, too fat to get out of his car to serve warrants, employed as his helper a village character called Silly Willy...
Meanwhile the French Government tried to get rid of some of the refugees elsewhere, but with little success. The U. S. offered to take just 352, the unfilled portion of the 1939 quota for Spanish immigrants. South American countries wanted only Basque farmers. Soviet Russia invited only a few big Loyalist leaders to make their homes there. Mexico was willing to receive some, provided they promised to keep out of politics...
...platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust will be unveiled next month. Biarritz's mayor explained that the reason for the tribute was that in 1889 Queen Victoria visited Biarritz, and in her train came a flood of tourists which...