Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bitterly fought by the A. M. A. for nearly a year, G. H. A. doubled its membership, was declared acceptable by the District of Columbia Medical Society, A. M. A. subsidiary, after Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold began antitrust proceedings against the society three months...
...Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers...
Five years ago the station's staff began to pay particularly close attention to illegitimate infants whom it placed in foster homes. Average I. Q. of these 275 children's mothers was 87, and their fathers were mostly unskilled laborers with little education. The parents were rated "poor stock" by every standard...
When news of the Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...
...lies Greenup County-a stretch of shaggy, greenbriered hill country, twelve miles wide and 20 miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...