Word: batch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty last week to complete the butchery of those Chinese troops, tragically misled, who, against the advice given by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisers, had been left to defend Nanking. It was a tiresome job, lining up hundreds of prisoners and shooting them down batch after batch. However, according to foreign correspondents who witnessed some of the executions, Japanese soldiers invited Japanese sailors as their guests and apparently all of them "thoroughly enjoyed...
...White House Library came into being in 1929, when the Booksellers Association donated 500 volumes; in 1933 they gave 200 more. Before it was started Presidents depended on their personal collections kept in the White House study, and on books from the Library of Congress. When the new batch of White House reading matter was presented by President Lewis B. Traver of the Booksellers Association, it was parked first on the second floor, where members of the Roosevelt family could select what they wanted to read, and where Mrs. Roosevelt could pick books to place in guest rooms...
...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Washington correspondents have been energetically spreading the rumor that one of them was destined for angular, friendly Chairman Fred Moore Vinson of the House Ways & Means sub-Committee on Taxation. Last week Franklin Roosevelt obligingly confirmed the rumor by issuing a batch of appointments upping 64-year-old Justice D. Lawrence Groner to be chief justice, naming as associate justices Cornell Law Professor Henry W. Edgerton and Fred M. Vinson...
...told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...Washington, Administrator John David Biggers sent out the first batch of his 85,000,000 unemployment census report cards. In Toledo, Mr. Diggers' Libbey-Owens-Ford announced plans to close down four of its plants (Reason: oversupply of glass), turning 900 workers into 900 unemployed...