Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flags from the windows. A crowd of over 2,000 organized a parade and attempted to march to Chile's White House, the Casa Moneda. Kept away by a formidable cordon of police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
...Union City, N. J. Laura del Vecchia, 4, tapped on a neighbor's plate-glass window with a stick. A Mrs. Intermaggio, wife of the owner of the window, rushed out and scolded Laura del Vecchia. Laura's grandmother hurried up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio. Laura's father bustled up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio too. Intermaggio arrived; he and Laura's father fought, grappled, crashed through the plate-glass window, had to be taken to a hospital, were arrested, locked up in jail...
...Wilmington, Del. Mayor Frank C. Parks went to court and paid a fine of $1 & costs for having parked his car too long in front of City Hall while he was being inducted into office...
...anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed...
...dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip on the industry that five independent radio manufacturers, backed by RPA, went into the Federal court at Wilmington, Del. and asked Judge Hugh Martin Morris to pass on the legality of RCA's tube contract with competitors. Judge Morris ruled that the contract was a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Law as it tended to create a monopoly. RCA appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court which...