Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were forbidden to watch the spectacle, held a strike, watched it anyway. At West Newton, a train killed Bartholomew C. Ryan on his way home from the race. On Commonwealth Avenue, one Edward Redman collapsed from a heart attack. Loudest cheers from spectators at what has been called the crudest sporting spectacle in the U. S. were heard for 46-year-old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) schoolteacher, who first won the race in 1911 and six times thereafter and who still regularly totters out to his annual day of notoriety. Last week, Runner De Mar finished 18th...
...bone beads. From the necklace depended a small plaque apparently carved from a mammoth tusk and bearing the image of three entwined snakes. Nearby were bone weapons and 20 bone images of women, perhaps goddesses. Archeologists outside Russia doubted the antiquity of the deposit, principally because even the crudest bone weapons had not come to light before the late Paleolithic period...
When Attorney General Cummings announced last year that he was going to bring criminal action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing...
...equanimity last week. For 13 years 5-5-3 has averted a disastrously expensive naval race, and all thinking Japanese know it. Last week the Imperial Government, realizing that millions of the Son of Heaven's subjects were deeply troubled, sought to reassure them by one of the crudest broadsides ever fired from Rengo, the semi-official news service...
...Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made two tart statements, one charging "politics of the crudest sort.'' the other declaring that he was being "railroaded" without the customary chance to refute the Government's tax claims. Last week he purred contentedly: "The fact that the grand jury reached a sound conclusion, notwithstanding the unusual methods pursued in my case, is proof of the good...