Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland, Paul Vories McNutt united-for one evening at least-the numerous scrapping Ohio Democratic elements at a binge given by New Dealer Dan T. Moore, regional SEC chief. Even big businessmen, Republicans, and three-time Republican Mayor Harold H. Burton came, saw and were temporarily conquered by tall, tan, terrific Mr. McNutt...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
Convalescent from an attack of his family's chronic ailment, gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared last week in the House of Commons for the first time in a fortnight. One of the first questions asked him was by Labor Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into...
Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated...
...astrological parlance, last week's full moon was squared by Mars (for war) at 10 p. m. Greenwich time, Nov. 26, from the watery sign Pisces (fish) governed by Neptune...