Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
...theadvice of long-armed Negro Lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander. They ducked well-wishers, salesmen, and returned $2,133.90 to the County Relief Board. They paid their debts, set aside $57,588 for income tax, redeemed the precious things they had pawned. Then they drew a deep breath and cautiously began to acquire a few of the things which, in their wildest moments, they had dreamed about. Pearl got her new home ($3,000) and furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they...
...residents of France were thoroughly vexed when the Embassy, in the holiday absence of genial Ambassador Bill Bullitt, began a drive to obtain their fingerprints and urge as many of them as possible out of the country...
...guns on Foreign Minister Sandier, accusing him, among other things, of "pro-British" actions. But that was not what removed him. Long had Foreign Minister Sandier advocated fortifying, with Finnish cooperation, the strategic Aland Islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. He especially urged it when Russia began her diplomatic pressure on Finland. Moreover, Mr. Sandier was the spokesman of those friends of Finland who believed that Scandinavian neutrality was indivisible...
...Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...