Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all forward-looking dynasties, the House of Pendergast early chose an heir. He was Michael's son, "Young Jim." The War had interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young...
Last July the Board of Regents of this university ordered that the liberty of the Daily Texan, the student daily newspaper, to print what it chose should be virtually annihilated. Their dictatorial decree, enforced by an Editorial Advisory Committee, excluded from the news and editorial columns all "libelous material, improper personal attacks, reckless accusations, opinions not based on fact, inaccurate statements, articles on national, state and local political questions, indecencies, material detrimental to the good conduct of the student body, and material prejudicial to the best interest of the University; and any material in conflict with good taste or wise...
...anniversary is more a coincidence than an excuse and the word "sesquicentennial," of unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens to be a place where General Washington once complained of the mosquitoes...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
When 33 U. S. sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank River estate in eastern Maryland, showed himself a good friend of conservation by serving as an Institute director until last spring, contributing substantial sums to its treasury...