Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium stage he had been so carried away by what he called "my pet children" that he had spent half an hour, leaning over the back of a chair and talking spontaneously. Though the White House had no text of his informal words, alert newshawks caught most of them. Declared the President...
Following is the text of the letter...
...Frenchmen subscribe to those sentiments, but all were startled at the text of the 14 decrees. To slash government expenditures Premier Doumergue was preparing to retire one out of every ten government employes and to cut all Federal salaries. Politically it was playing with dynamite. In France with a population of 42,000,000 there are nearly as many non-military government employes as all the non-military Federal plus all the State employes in the U. S.* One Frenchman in 53 works for the Government. By lowering the compulsory retirement age. approximately 85,000 of these will be removed...
Most important, for the first time in two years a U. S. Secretary of State and a Foreign Minister of Japan exchanged direct communications on the subject of improving relations between the two nations. The text of both these diplomatic nosegays, sent month ago but published only last week, said precious little at great length, but did contain one significant sentence each. Wrote Foreign Minister Koki Hirota...
...Dall imparts to her readers only as much of Washington's historical background as Dave and Babs can remember. A direct literary descendant of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit," Scamper is screwed more tightly to possibility, will please modern children with its modern setting. Better than the text grown-ups will like Mrs. Marjorie Flack Larsson's illustrations-water-colors and sketches with the low-to-the-ground perspective of childhood, showing Scamper skidding on the deck of the Sequoia, racing over the Mount Vernon lawn, traveling in Mrs. Roosevelt's knitting...