Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...water. Ships reported by name were the British Achilles, Cumberland and Ajax. No fresh attacks by Scheer or Deutschland were reported, suggesting either that their fuel was low or they were lying low. In Mexico, one of a pair of carrier pigeons (a hawk got the other) was reported brought in by an Indian with a German naval commander's code message on its leg. Mexicans said they knew a secret radio was operating south of Mexico City, probably helping German raiders or supply ships...
Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even for one glass of his special 1.0 beer, history might have taken a new course...
...pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French pact with Turkey was a "powerful instrument for peace in southeastern Europe"; 3) the German-Soviet pact, while greatly benefiting Soviet Russia, had "brought only humiliation and loss for Germany." The Prime Minister gloated: "The position of the Allies has, as the weeks have gone by, rather strengthened than deteriorated...
Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...