Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sheriff R. L. Shamblin hustled three Negroes into an automobile one midnight last week, sped down a lonely back road toward Birmingham. His prisoners were Dan Pippen, 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, indicted for the murder of a white girl. Sheriff Shamblin had heard that a mob was planning to break into the Tuscaloosa jail and lynch them next day. As he drove along, two carloads of armed men overtook him, demanded his prisoners. Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies...
...patriotic murder sect led by strapping Priest Nissho Inouye, were brought to trial with him. At his bidding they assassinated last year ex-Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye (who argued that the Japanese budget could not support a war) and Japan's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (convinced to the roots of his gentle soul that the Mitsui business empire he managed could thrive best in peace). "We still believe in the righteousness of our cause!" thundered Priest Inouye last week. "Our acts were intended to purify the nation." That the nation was purified many Japanese believe. They...
...surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried small arms and machine-guns, prepared for naval battle with high-jackers or covetous rivals. Just what happened at the wreck scene the Coast Guard did not report, but presently a Captain John Hall of the Theresa & Dan and Jnord, also trying to salvage the Merida, ran in to Norfolk, roaring that Captain Bowdoin had cut his anchor chain...
...Died. Dan P. Hoover, 47, vice president of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners), son of the founder; by jumping from a fifth floor window at Cleveland Clinic while under observation for a stomach disorder...