Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock next morning the new Speaker called the House to order for Joe Byrns's state funeral, recessed for an hour to await distinguished guests. Many Representatives stayed in their seats, talked quietly as the galleries filled. At 11:30 a U. S. Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain...
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Unable to raise $3,000 bail, Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, great grandson & namesake of Cleveland's late great industrialist and President-maker, was clapped into Cleveland jail to await a Grand Jury hearing of a charge that he forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral...
...take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East by land...
...shop, put in a call to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...