Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this someone had the happy thought of inducing the Montreux Conference to adjourn until next month, after the League meetings, and the 7th Earl Stanhope sped from Montreux to Geneva to tell "Tony" Eden how things stood. Dictator Benito Mussolini long since refused to send an Italian delegate to Montreux "until after sanctions are lifted." Last week the Italian Press, pointing out that Italian commercial tonnage is the heaviest through the straits, declared that obviously no solution at Montreux not approved by Italy could stand. At this the Turkish Press of Dictator Kamâl Atatürk exclaimed what...
Wrote Planter Plunkett: "The accompanying pictures tell the story of what happened, and I need only mention what steps we took to see that there were no illusions. . . . We . . . photographed every position of the performer and from every angle. . . . I held a long stick, and from outside the circle passed the end of it over and under and around Subbayah's body. . . . I can vouch for the fact that he had no support whatsoever except for resting one hand lightly on top of the cloth-covered stick. He remained horizontal in the air for about four minutes. The tent...
...bourgeois-born daughter of one of France's great industrial families, the Béziers. Her father's millions were derived from the tinning of sardines. Precocious as a child and fond of teasing an old Senator, her uncle, to tell her about the politics of the day and the political salons of great French maitresses in the past, Marie Louise acquired by marriage the exalted nobility of the House d'Uzés, espoused the grandson of the greatest and most socially prominent horsewoman in all France, the late Dowager Duchesse...
...Tell again about the cordwood...
...potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...