Word: v
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...
...this list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More to keep Finland's slate clean than through any hope of success, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner appealed to Russia's Premier V. M. Molotov by radio (the only medium by which he can address him), offering Russia "even greater concessions...
First contestants: Miami High School, with a season's record of nine straight victories (over schools from five States), v. Garfield High School, New Jersey champions, two years undefeated...
...wrote a sober obituary on the death of Socialist Eugene V. Debs in 1926, two bitter columns on Sacco & Vanzetti the year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
Already released to 5,000 schools throughout the U. S., as well as to a scattering of record shops, Then Came War: 1939 is the first of a planned series, The Sound of History. On the fire: Russia v. Finland...