Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...
...Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize a single soul- not a single soul. I bet they were from down Virginia...
...Argentina has neither notified this government of its action nor asked for its advice. The whole affair seems to be a matter between the individual creditors and the Argentine Government...
...citizens, the committee adjourned to the White House for a Presidential blessing. In a long press release, the point was carefully made that although "the Government will seek to give such friendly aid as may be proper under the circumstances," the committee was purely a private affair. The committee...
...news, it resumes operations next month in Alabama under a new management. In the meantime, however, the citizens have not found time too leaden-footed just to keep their hands in, they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When they reached the county line they were halted by a three...