Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic meeting, that they were "writing a page of honor for the future Spanish fatherland." Historically minded Loyalists took heart by remembering that another Cortes had met in Cadiz in March 1812, in even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists" of 1812 (with the considerable help of the Duke of Wellington...
Last year Norway's Birger Ruud won the U. S. title. The year before, his brother Sigmund won it. This year the Ruud Brothers remained at home but another Norwegian, 2 -year-old Reidar Andersen, from the same little silver-mining town of Kongsberg, crossed the Atlantic to take part in the U. S. championship...
...votes were recorded, the biggest Senate vote in three years. Several times the lead changed as, in the hushed room, Senators in alphabetical order answered "yea" or "nay." First shock to Leader Barkley's composure came just before his own name was called. Alabama's Bankhead, brother of the Speaker and ordinarily a sure Administration vote, said...
...other's legal maneuvering by hiring high-powered lawyers. Mr. Martin chose Frank P. Walsh of Manhattan and Frank Mulholland of Toledo. Mr. Thomas chose Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, counsel for years to Sidney Hillman's embattled Amalgamated Clothing Workers, son of the late Chief Justice, brother of Ohio's new conservative Senator...
Kerins disclosed last night that his brother, Charles, was going to draw cartoons lampooning members of the school committee, and that the drawings would be circulated Friday of next week. "We will not spare the Charley McCarthys of the school committee," he warned ominously...