Word: things
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Washington for still more conferences before sailing home on the Normandie. Of one thing about the most important diplomatic event of the week Washington could be certain: M. van Zeeland, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull were not spending long hours together playing ticktacktoe...
...Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates...
...Dayton, Tenn. in 1925 feels that the sudden death of William Jennings Bryan in that little town was in large part due to the forensic drubbing he received from the satanic tongue of Clarence Darrow. At one point the grim old lawyer said: "The Bible says every living thing that was not taken on the Ark with Noah was drowned in the flood. Do you believe that Mr. Bryan...
...Labor] movement is a sound and healthy thing. It could be made the first step toward an integrated, Christian social order. It is a definite fact that Communist agents are active in the field. . . . If, however, an intelligent, Christian social doctrine be intelligently and zealously propagated in the movement, the Communists will not have a show. Understand, we see the need for Catholic participation in the movement if there never were such a thing as a Communist, but as things stand now there is need a hundredfold...
...First thing that happened was martial law, declared by Iviza's fascist military commandant. Then there were raids, arrests of those who owned radios; then no more news from anywhere. As suspense deepened, rumors spread, money stopped circulating, two old people killed themselves. A plane appeared, flew over Santa Eulalia, was shot at by fascist soldiers. Few days later, another plane flew over. This one dropped leaflets which said that Government forces were coming to retake the island...