Word: warns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warn you that any step you take toward tying our money in any way to any foreign money is a usurpation of the powers and prerogatives of Congress. . . . Your viewpoint and your activities do not represent the best interests of our people, and your acts are certain to provoke a demand for a Congressional inquiry...
...Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...
...them from the old-fashioned wooden platform sat the school dignitaries. Abraham Lincoln had stood on that platform to deliver his famed campaign speech in 1860. Now another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage...
...have never travelled on a bus and believe the "Fugitive Lovers" gives an authentic picture of one, you may rush to the nearest bus station and start for the coast. Irrelevant as the following remark may be, we feel duty bound to warn you that biliousness, depression, and not infrequently locomotor ataxia result from one ride on these floundering monsters. But this film tries to make one believe that adventure and romance breed on buses. If you desire fantasy, "Fugitive Lovers" is pleasant enough...
...millionaire father on the subject of matrimony, dives gracefully from the parental yacht and strikes out for shore with a fast crawl stroke. After cleverly dodging her father's detectives she leaves Miami via bus for New York to rejoin her lover. On the bus she meets Peter Warn, who after the typical Clark Gable show of insolence takes her under his protection. Then ensue several scenes at tourist camps, many of them quite amusing. The result is that the couple by gradual stages progress to New York. Then come several bewildering episodes which are inexplicable according to the ordinary...