Word: please
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared...
When the Earl of Essex returns from sinking the Spanish fleet, spitfiery, red-wigged Elizabeth rewards him with a majestic slap in front of the delighted court. It seems he should have brought back the Spanish bullion ships intact. In Ireland, where he gets himself sent, Essex is defeated when...
> Dour, GOP-Hopeful George David Aiken, Governor of Vermont, irked by pleas of pressure groups to "proclaim" special days and weeks for the promotion ot worthy causes and foods, issued a proclamation ending all such proclamations.
Last week all this U. S.-Finnish amity spectacularly came home to roost when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, having turned a deaf ear to pleas that he intervene for peace between Germany and the Allies, and having let Russia invade Poland and hog-tie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania without protest...
Other student papers were more restrained, contented themselves with warnings and prayers. Said the Yale Daily News: "Secure from a military and economic standpoint, America will only become involved in the present war if she again heeds propagandist pleas to preserve democracy and stamp out Hitlerism. Let us be on...