Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, when Mr. Switter returned, he found the hospitals filled with dead & dying, the jails jammed with prisoners. The C. I. O. headquarters had been completely wrecked. Witness after union witness testified they had been routed from bed and arrested without benefit of search warrant. The only concealed weapon found on any of the 165 unionists arrested was one three-and-a-half-inch knife. All were examined by an immigration official but not one was found deportable...
...this point Captain Sagel sent yet another message saying that so far as he could see the "abandoned mine tunnel" in which the gold was supposed to have been discovered was "nothing but a cleft in the river bed" and quite empty...
...rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than in his own bed. Food was good and plentiful...
Senators feared that this sententious pronouncement was only too true. After hearing it Senator Shipstead went home to bed. Senator Norris had already left Washington for vacation, a very sick man. Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona was seriously ill. Senator King had just recovered from a long sick spell. The health of many another was none too good...
Bedseat Driving. Seated in his bed at Tokyo last week, the Premier of Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...