Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Was the West?" is the title of White's lecture this evening, to be given under the auspices of the American Civilization Committee. He will talk on "What Is the West?" tomorrow evening and will conclude the series with "How Will the West Survive?" Monday...
...belief. In few quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk it over." Still fewer were as cheerfully bellicose as Sergeant Alvin C. York, No. 1 U. S. hero of the last war, who said at Pall Mall. Tenn...
Pittsburgh was reported swinging from isolation to hemisphere defense, but not yet to helping in Europe. Schenley High School, a famed local barometer, voted 55-45% against "cooperation" with France and England. Talk about the war-products possibilities of Pittsburgh's multifarious factories made labor recall war wages even as capital recalled war profits...
...China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...
...them before June 30-and after that date they cannot collect because of a State law prohibiting debt carry-overs to the next fiscal year. Unofficial calculations were that 200 Georgia schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed. In many a Georgia village and town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep...