Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University's latest purchase of land became known late Wednesday afternoon, when a deed to a piece of land between Gore and McKinlock Halls was recorded with the Middlesex South District Deeds, dated November 23, and being numbered 137 of that date. This latest addition to the University's land holdings completes Harvard ownership of all land along the nothern side of Memorial Drive from Eliot House to the Cambridge Electric Light Company, with the exception of a public playground between Dunster House and the Maintenance Department location...
...Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...
...deed Dr. Norris, 64, would have lost a $3,300 yearly pension. But the money has no great meaning to him. He is one of the Pennsylvania Norrises whose American ancestor, Isaac, was a friend of William Penn. Isaac Norris' descendants founded Norristown, Pa., became wealthy bankers, merchants, and landowners in & around Philadelphia...
...robust and hearty, talks incessantly of his exploit. "I was one of the principal organizers of the whole undertaking [against Alexander II]" boasted Assassin Frolenko last week. "For two years we hunted that scoundrel Tsar and at last we got him!" "Do you still approve your deed? Do you still approve of terror generally?" "I certainly do!" replied the Bomb Boy, who is a year younger than President von Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners (all of whom must have served bona fide Tsarist prison terms for revolutionary offenses) counts some...
...longer possible for international bankers or others to sell to the investing public of America-foreign securities on the implied understanding that these securities have been passed on or approved by the State Department."- 9) "High public officials in the next administration will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the prices of stocks or bonds." While Republicans cried "Demagog!" and "childish" after the Columbus speech, many a Democrat, encouraged by the nominee's flash and fire, began to feel that here was, after all, another Roosevelt for national leader...