Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delighted editorialists hailed this wife-witness incident as a nutshell exposition of the President's free & easy economics,* a revealing display of his ego. It also illuminated a Roosevelt quality little known outside his family: with his own money the President tries to make 59? go as far as...
> Finland halted preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled to be held at Helsingfors next summer, pondered their cancelation-just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it...
Among the 313 U. S. passengers were persons from 20 States: six New Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother...
Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety...
≫On the Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident...