Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for the effect of Governor Leche's soothing words, last speaker on the card was Secretary Wallace. His theme: Pan-Americanism is the best safeguard against dictatorships and "we now know there are nations which despise Democracy and which look with longing eyes toward this hemisphere." His blunt conclusion: "This challenge from the dictatorships of Europe caught us unawares. We lost for a time our common purpose, but now it has been restored. Europe, we thank...
...Senate would upset this second Blum Cabinet as it upset the first, but Paris was surprised when Mr. Blum's Socialist henchmen brought out a crowd of 10,000, few of whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting the Internationale. "Down with the dotards! Hang Caillaux! Caillaux to the gallows...
...years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony was supposed to indicate the new Soviet trend toward babbling-brook romanticism...
...piece was twelve inches long, the other two inches. There were several human features, including 1) general shape; 2) a groove near the knee end. On the other hand the Sinanthropus thighbones differed from those of modern humans in 1) greater stoutness; 2) faint curvature; 3) decreasing thickness toward the knee end. In these same features it differed also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich assumes the Peking man's thighbones to be the more primitive. He concludes that the Java thighbone has no relation to the Java skull-an opinion advanced...
Visibly shattered, Richard Whitney was led out, started toward Sing Sing, in the company of one John Mahoney, who had been sentenced to 30 to 60 years for stealing...