Word: circular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in rank in every way to the President, who by the Constitution was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Last week the President signed his own superiority away. Marshal Smigly-Rydz was made Commander-in-Chief, was designated successor to the Presidency in case of vacancy before the war ends. President...
Artist Curry himself devised the ingenious arrangement of ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family...
...Circular letters were received by 10,000 employes of the Department of Agriculture asking contributions to build the Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park. Replying to criticism, the collector in charge explained: "This is a strictly voluntary proposition...
...work it does a grand job. For in-fighting in riots its shot cartridges are murderous-at 25 yards they hurl birdshot into a circular pattern six feet in diameter...
...almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep an eye on everyone. After that Their Majesties received the 70-odd reporters covering their trip...