Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When New York City's public was convinced that Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg were guilty of the much-publicized killing of Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9 et seq.), a Bronx jury three weeks ago chose to believe alibis presented by the accused men's sisters rather than the testimony of one Schlitten, who said he had driven the car while Harry Stein throttled the girl...
...City Council also voted over Mayor Murphy's veto to close down the last of the municipal "flop houses" for single men. Eight hundred jobless, ousted from their quarters, marched to City Hall, crowded the galleries while their leaders pleaded for continuance of relief. Those who so chose-and they were few- could go to the county asylum at Eloise where they were given food and shelter on the technicality that they were suffering from the "disease of hunger...
...railroad brings prestige to a community. It may also bring prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half...
President Miklas looked about for a new national leader. He chose Dr. Karl Buresch, Governor of Lower Austria, handed him the Chancellor's mandate. In less than 24 hours Dr. Buresch had whipped together an excellent Cabinet including...
...Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...