Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Christmas settles into its stride on Christmas Eve. In the afternoon the President will make a brief national broadcast, and light the National Community Christmas tree. After dinner Franklin Roosevelt, a longtime lover of Tiny Tim, reads aloud to his family Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol...
...Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
...Post, Heywood Broun lay unconscious under an oxygen tent. A priest had administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. This week Heywood Broun was dead. An oldtime newspaperman, attached to an evening paper, he would have been glad to know that he died in time for the afternoon editions...
...Sunday afternoon, at 3:45 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy came on the air to report that the Graf Spee was weighing anchor. At 5:15, he was on again, to report that the Spee had steamed out into the Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to the Nazi cargo steamer, Tacoma. "The commander," Jimmy hazarded, "may try to scuttle the ship about five miles out." He was covering, he said, from a dock, in the midst of a crowd. "They are doing a lot of talking," he shouted. NBC cut him off the network...
Wigglesworth Hall was the scene of one of the first Christmas rackets yesterday afternoon when two men dressed in uniforms very similar to these used by the Salvation Army began soliciting monetary aid for a so-called "Christmas dinner for the poor...