Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the demonstration took the same emotional turn as the scene in Vienna 108 years ago Toscanini had given a great concert, perhaps the greatest he has ever given. But more, the audience had not seen & heard him for weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed, yet he had come back, traveled 4,500 mi. from Italy to help unemployed U. S. musicians. "The audience stood...
...week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states of Baluchistan, Lord Willingdon noted with approval a sign To London, 5,877 Miles...
Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
Devens, who is surrendering the pitching duties to Taylor, may also watch today's battle from centre field, while resting his twirling arm for Saturday's reception of the Penn State team...
...Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit of his intimate knowledge...