Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Salt Lake City's death house Gunman Deering explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...
Last week in Hankow up popped Father Jacquinot once more to establish another area for refugees. He beat the Japanese into the city, arranged to use the French Concession and former British, German and Russian Concessions as his "safety zone." Into the area he hurried 100,000 Chinese who chose to remain...
...succeed President Frothingham the I. B. A. chose a banker from as far away from Wall Street as possible - sunburned, zestful Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter and Co. At 46, Jean Witter is the crack security salesman of the Pacific Coast. Said Banker Witter last week: "I should like to put down as the first item on our schedule for 1938-39 - work with the SEC in carrying out the objectives of the securities legislation it is obligated to administer...
...borrowed transmitter and some receiving sets lent by Marconi Co. in 1935 made possible the first experiment in taking radio to the ryot. A.I.R. boldly chose for the experiment the turbulent Northwest Frontier, set up community sets, trumpeting Government propaganda. The villagers objected passionately, pegged rocks at the loudspeakers. That experiment was abandoned...
...Deacons won the toss, and chose to kick off with the wind at their backs, A long kickoff carried to the Bellboy goal line, where Dave Conroy grabbed the ball and ran it back to the thirty. After a few line plays, Lowell was forced to kick into the strong wind...