Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kondylis' Dictatorship. They are headed by onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Last week in Athens a frequent caller at Tsaldaris' house was Britain's Minister to Greece, Sydney Philip Waterlow. Slowly it dawned on General Kondylis that he, pro-Italian, Dictator and Kingmaker, had made the worst possible choice of King for his purposes. Of mixed Danish-German-Russian royal blood, George II may not be brainy but he has a great deal of what it takes to be King. For the difficult maneuvering ahead he can count on much quiet British help and the Greeks are used...
...Maybe nobody could have done better, but in getting anybody to try at all, why did we have to get somebody who, by the very terms of his selection, couldn't even know how to start? . . . The financial and fiscal affairs of the U. S. are in the worst mess in our history...
...numbering about 350,000, less than half of them full-blooded*) should also have a New Deal. Since 1887, corrupt Indian agents and greedy civilians had tricked, swindled and robbed U. S. Indians of approximately one billion dollars in cash and all but the worst 47,000,000 of their 138,000,000 acres of land, largely reducing them to dependent pauperism. Since attempts to individualize and westernize Indians had obviously failed, Commissioner Collier proposed to revive the tribes' old life and culture, help them become selfsupporting, largely self-governing, thoroughly Indian communities. Result was the Reorganization Act, passed...
...working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
Although Noyes lived chastely, submitting himself successfully to the fiery temptations of Manhattan's Five Points ("Hell has done its worst," he said as he escaped the painted ladies) his course was marked with scandals. Greatest scandal did not break until after his marriage. The household of one of his followers had been broken up through a wife's infidelity, and Noyes had reconciled all parties, who went to live with him in Putney, Vt. There the unconventional religious views of the Perfectionists aroused hostility, but no knowledge of their sexual conduct reached the townspeople. With great gravity...