Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expropriation. In a printed handout, Ambassador Daniels said he had been summoned by President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally received this important expression of Mexico's deep friendship for my country," read the Ambassador's statement, "I expressed this gratification to the President...
...Nation and Mr. Allen. Up to this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed of whom is liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst, were diligently preparing to tight the case to a finish...
Last week hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...
...smart Toronto reporter asked a Protestant, a Jewish and a Catholic divine what they thought of Mrs. Fenton's act, revealed the following replies...
...grew morose and vindictive, gradually stopped crusading for farmers and took up more sensational causes. Increasingly unhappy, he would interrupt his incoherent tirades against the Jews and Catholics with strange stories about assassins who were after him, about mysterious footprints found outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where he had had so many triumphs. Until the end of his life he detested industrialism in all its forms, was driven frantic by noise, and in the depths of his despair...