Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scoring four goals in one chukker, and hitting hard throughout the match the Junior Varsity malletmen kept themselves in the running for first place in the Junior League polo circuit by defeating the Cossacks 9-2 at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday evening...
...forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey the proclamation. At Grand Meadow, Minn. a cousin of President Hoover luckily got out of debt by giving his farm...
...citizens knew last week because he had been presented to them only three weeks before the election. When Nominee Francis Murray Wilson suddenly died in the midst of the campaign, Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City picked Judge. Park, Nominee Wilson's old friend and neighbor, off the circuit bench to fill his place...
...There may have been a short circuit," said one of the Atlantique's electricians, "but nothing was registered by the electric meters...
...Christmas tree, loaded with celluloid ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...