Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PETERSON Managing Editor The Red Wing Daily Republican Red Wing, Minn...
...Siegel of the Traveler: "Harvard by one touchdown. With Macdonald and Spreyer in there the Crimson has a much more diversified attack; and should Lee start at the wing post in the same backfield Harvard will have too much speed for the Elis...
Border Statesman. Within one hour up spoke Secretary Hull in Washington to announce a contrary view. A quiet, softspoken, long-suffering ex-judge (keeping close control over one of the hottest tempers in Washington), Cordell Hull's difficulties have long provided left-wing New Dealers with some of their favorite and more malicious anecdotes. They like to tell about the time he was told of the Munich settlement, glanced at the documents, drawled "Sure 'nough" and went on about his business. They tell of the time he spoke with quiet pride of his work as a reformer...
...arrive from Canada last week was another gentleman who has been around: potent, bushy-browed Arthur Blaikie Purvis. Head of the U. S. wing of the British purchasing commission he, like his French confrere, is returning to an old job. In 1914 he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U. S. His peacetime job is president of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (makers of explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals) which means he knows the chemical industry like a book...
...outdone, the French have devised a new strategy aimed at hypnotizing the enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer...