Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...
...with convenient chairs where dyed blonde secretaries can sit, I can safely say that the Arabs do not care for such civilization. The Jews claim that Palestine is their home because they lived there about 2,000 years ago, I would like to see some Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent go back to England and claim it as their own or, further back, the Saxons going to Germany to claim Saxony which surely was their home...
...have been told that your magazine answers questions for its readers. I am interested to learn what descent may be ascribed to the parents of Shirley Temple, "the little actress." So many seem to disagree on this question. I thank...
...Irvington, N.J., Police Judge Thomas J. Holleran let off with a lecture on "Americanism" two teen-age boys, one of German, the other of Italian descent, who vented their political passions by pen-knifing a swastika on the left forearm of Bernard Cohen...
...Massachusetts no Senator has a seat at stake, no important Representative is likely to be liquidated and the most engaging characters on the political stage are two young Boston blue bloods. Robert F. Bradford, now 35, is the son of the late famed Surgeon Edward Hickling Bradford in direct descent from Pilgrim Father William Bradford. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, 31, is a son of the famed liberal Unitarian minister, Samuel Eliot, and grandson of the late, even more famed Harvard President Charles W. Eliot...