Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was all U. S. newshawks needed to make them realize what a change had been wrought in the huge, spreading $1,000,000 red-and-white Queen Anne palace that houses the British Embassy on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue...
...Virginia hill that slopes into the Potomac, twice as many Americans as usual walked, hushed and hatless, to stand in sombre silence by the white marble Unknown Soldier's Tomb. In Sudbury, Mass., leathery old Henry Ford, who once called history "bunk" and with his "peace ship"* tried to stop World War I before Christmas 1915, told reporters: "They don't dare have a war and they know it. It's all a big bluff." About Hitler: "I don't know Hitler personally, but at least Germany keeps its people at work...
Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...politics, now denouncing, now supporting each other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
...unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...