Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they heard this bad news, the Senate had been thrown into a turmoil when four days earlier the lower house passed the most sweeping amnesty bill in Cuba's history. Under its provisions thousands of prisoners awaiting trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay...
Only outright "gangsters and terrorists" were excluded from the bill. This provoked an ironical outburst from Representative Manuel Penabas and several other members of the anti-Batista bloc in the lower house, who claimed that they were being threatened by the Boss's musclemen. Cried Representative Penabas: "We are armed for any eventuality...
...elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck of the dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead, a heroic survivor who has lost a leg in that comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later project with alarm but, of course, the Go-Getter goes & gets. Amiable, rapid and pleasant...
...Rule. The climax of Parnell's career has been ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play. He vindicated himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that had idolized him but Gladstone's support...
Rarest and most satisfying achievement for a pitcher is a no-hit game, of which there have been 115 in major-league history. Last week in Chicago, spectacled Pitcher Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox, who was barely good enough to make the team last year, pitched the first one in the major leagues since August 31, 1935. Rarest and most satisfying kind of no-hit game is one in which no batter reaches first base, of which there are six on record in the major leagues. In Pitcher Dietrich's no-hit game, which the White...