Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing days of Maryland's sizzling primary fight between brusque, well-to-do Senator Millard E. Tydings and homespun little Representative David John Lewis brought Democrats something new to talk about almost hourly last week. Items...
...aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling...
Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
Vigorously denied by Nazi police last week was the report that their No. 1 Prisoner, former Austrian Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, is so broken in health that he cannot be brought to trial. Prisoner Schuschnigg is in a "depressed state," the police admitted, but he will be tried in a few months before a special court on the charge of violating the Austrian Constitution. Likely sentence: Exile. "Germany's dignity," soberly cracked the police, would not allow his execution or sentence to a long jail term...
...many young commercial fishermen whom the Government has encouraged to equip themselves to guide visiting game fishermen. Alf Kenney marveled at the huge 16-0 reel and the 54-thread line, which scarcely looked hefty enough to hold a fish like the 860-pounder which Churchill Bower had brought into Shelburne few days before, taken with a keg and handline...