Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical and horrifying case history is that of a young Chinese girl brought in a basket litter on January 26 to the Mission hospital in Nanking. She said that her husband, a Chinese policeman, was seized by one of the Japanese execution squads on the same day that she was taken by Japanese soldiers from a hut in the Safety Zone to the South City. She was kept there for 38 days, she said, and attacked by Japanese soldiers from five to ten times each day. Upon examination by the Mission hospital, she was found to have contracted all three...
Assassinated. Dr. Herman Chanen Liu U. S.-educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai...
Seated cross-legged in a basket, the dead Indian was wrapped in hundreds of yards of cotton and wool cloth and decked in all the finery of the historic civilization from the dry eastern sea-coast of South America...
Having heard the Committee's Chairman Robert Doughton say in defense of his bill that it might face Presidential veto if the third basket were removed, the House proceeded to cock an appreciative ear when Massachusetts' John McCormack urged that it be removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from...
...House approved an amendment raising liquor taxes from $2 to $2.25 a gallon, which should bring in $25,000,000 a year, slapped import duties on pork and pork products which should bring in $5,000,000 more. Thereupon, after defeating one more woebegone attempt to slip the third basket back into the bill, the House passed it 293 to 97, sent it to the Senate...