Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice recently I have heard the story which seems to be going the rounds that our Government is paying an exorbitant rental for the land where our World War dead are buried in France. If the rent is not paid promptly, so the story goes, France has threatened to get rid of the bodies by the use of quicklime...
Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
...German advance was no bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken...
Page Scores Twice...
Kirkland had a field day against the Merrimen as Chuck Griffith, Sophomore flash, scored twice, John Addington once, and Dick Lane once. Griffith kicked three of the extra points and the other came on a pass...