Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization with some 300,000 members, it teamed with the bigger Legion (membership: 1,000,000) to get the Bonus passed. And no one who knows the history of the Grand Army of the Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able Washington Lobbyist, Millard W. Rice, to demand: 1) pensions or public jobs for every World War veteran, and 2) revision of the Social Security...
...where Vincent Bendix now has headquarters. For this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother...
Thus far this year about 5,000 children of the nation have developed poliomyelitis. By this time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
...Cruise of the Conrad), then sold the ship to 24-year-old George Huntington Hartford II. A. & P. (chain stores) scion. Both ships still carried age-browned canvas last week but their quarters have been luxuriously remodeled. Joseph Conrad boasts electric lights, shower baths, a ventilating system, an electric call board for the captain...
Grandson of the powerful Duke of Northumberland (beheaded 15 months before Philip's birth), nephew of the Earl of Leicester (rumored lover of Queen Elizabeth), godson of Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash...