Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of $7,000, Harmodio Arias, following his trip to Washington last autumn, had an elevator installed in La Presidencia, his official residence, in anticipation of President Roosevelt's coming there to dine. Rare is the spot with which Franklin Roosevelt does not trace some family connection, and Panama proved no exception. Opening his dinner speech on the "trusteeship" of the Canal, he remarked...
...become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
...Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled...
...America's future lies in the hands of the young men of today. Of what stuff are these young men composed? In order to adequately split this infinitive and answer this question, we shall trace the career of a type specimen, Carlos Cantilever Grabblestump, Harvard...
...North German Lloyd line at Philadelphia, admitted writing and disseminating the following letter: "Reputable investigators seeking to establish correctly the Roosevelt genealogy are forced to the conclusion that the President's forbears were Dutch Jews by the original name of Rosenfeld, inasmuch as they can find no trace of the Roosevelts in the vital statistics of Holland. This is not meant to disparage the President or his forbears. It is mentioned to possibly explain the present Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary leaning toward Hebrews...