Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted for weeks that both know more about the case than anyone in the city. Early in the week police searched Lawyer Pinganaud's apartment, found nothing to incriminate him personally, but did uncover a jolly photograph which showed Swindler Stavisky arm in arm with one of the chief attorneys of the Court of Appeal, named Cazenavette. Lawyer Cazenavette shrilly cried that the picture was taken at a publisher's birthday party and he had no idea who the gentleman he was embracing was. All this was very depressing for Raymond Hubert. Wandering home...
Suddenly there was a rustle and a hush.On the platform Franklin D. Roosevelt, who almost at that very hour was completing his 366th day as President of the U. S.. appeared on the arm of an aide. There was a round of applause. The Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate, raised his hand and began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin...
...McHam, a native of Sapulpa, Okla., enlisted as a private in the U. S. Army on March 28. 1917 and went overseas with the A. E. F. In the Argonne, from which only 15 members of his company of 250 emerged alive, he was wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged...
...their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken, for one, five, ten, 15 and 25 miles. He has fractured his skull, broken three ribs, his arm, leg, nose and collar bone. He married his Irish nurse. Their two pretty daughters were in Madison Square Garden last week to see how their father fared...
...later there were 144 signatures. Representative Isabella Greenway of Arizona, wearing a garnet colored sports dress and a red scarf, wandered in and sat down. Immediately several Representatives went to her, proposed that she take the credit of being the 145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot...