Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying over Greensburg, Pa., en route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle suddenly shouted. "Look out; there comes another plane." His pilot swerved sharply upward, just in time to avoid a collision. For "covering" the Coronation of King George VI for Publisher J. David Stern (Philadelphia Record, New York Evening Post, etc.), Mrs. Huberta Potter Earle last week received $450, first money she ever earned, gave it to the Philadelphia Children's Heart Hospital...
...caused to the Duke, I greatly regret it," winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
...came up to London from, Sandringham the day after my father's death [Jan. 20, 1936] to convey the express desire of my mother that the funeral should take place on Jan. 28. She was most anxious to avoid a long and painful delay, like that of two weeks which elapsed between the death and burial of my grandfather, King Edward...
...financial policies, and the state of affairs he discovered on striding into the Finance Ministry was not one he cared to conceal. "Inflation, devaluation and new taxes!" snorted the new Finance Minister at his first meeting with the Senate Finance Committee. "Such, messieurs, are the logical conclusions I cannot avoid...
...help fight a battle for Medicine. Beginning July 1 no marriage license could be issued in Illinois without a physician's certificates that both parties had passed tests showing freedom from syphilis and gonorrhea.*By no means were all Illinois' last-minute licensees tainted: many wished to avoid the added expense (up to $25) of the medical tests; others were shy or afraid of the bloodletting needle: others wished the old form of license since it is good indefinitely whereas the new antivenereal disease license becomes invalid after 30 days...