Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon Madam Perkins learned, however, that her anxiety was needless. In the small hours of the morning Governor Frank Murphy had arrived in Flint. "This is not going to be a brawl," he announced, and issued a call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty...
...Petrograd. In this city (the Tsarist capital which is now Leningrad) at the time of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky had briefly figured as the president of the historic "First Soviet." A soviet is merely any representative group or council of workmen who have decided to call themselves a soviet...
...only beginning to be realized that the inherent and inherited qualities of a man--President Conant would call it predestination--are of more importance than the medical training in this business of mental massage. Such learning which takes eight years to acquire and eight more to forget is only a well-paved detour in the careers of such...
...system is called the Duke-Fingard Treatment. "Duke" stands for a Fingard "uncle from Germany" whom David Fingrard calls Rudolph Duke, whom high-placed English backers of the treatment call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during...
...East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller...