Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked his horse a good part...
...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...
...York, however, Seabury investigators began looking for a more realistic reason. They found that last year Mayor Walker put through the municipal government a resolution remitting $415,499 in back taxes for seven years to a French government subsidiary which in 1918 had purchased 19 acres on Newt own creek for war munition storage. This tax remission opened the way to a profitable sale of the land by France...
Hushed was the hall when the ice cream plates were cleared away. Impressively the winners were announced. One of the senior Guildsmen had won on his home ground-Raymond S. Doerr of Battle Creek, Mich. Graduated from high school in February, he was encouraged by his father-a pattern maker for a plumbing manufacturer-to build a coach instead of looking for work. He set up a workshop in the family's basement. The other senior winner was a boy named Albert Fischer from Waukegan Ill. He was let out of his draftsman's job, spent...
...Battle Creek, Mich., Betty Fox, 23, sat atop a flagpole for 126 hours, broke the world's record for women. Crowds gathered afterwards to watch her sleep in the show window of a department store, cheered thunderously when she sat up, smiled, went back to sleep...