Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on the first full-fledged Saturday of the football season, U. S. citizens momentarily stopped criticizing military maneuvers on the Maginot Line, turned their attention to the field maneuvers of their favorite college football teams. Some of the games that kept them kibitzing long after the sun went...
High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great...
Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for...
In big, Gothic Holy Name Cathedral, on a silver and black pall, garbed in pontifical vestments of purple and white, lay all that was mortal of George William Cardinal Mundelein, late Archbishop of Chicago. For three long days last week, in long slow lines, ten times ten times ten thousand...
By the end of the fifth day the fat was in the fire. Onetime roundhouse sweeper Walter Chrysler, who had left the presidency of Buick ($500,000 a year) to retire at 44 from an industry that wouldn't let him quit, who had later founded blazing Chrysler Corp...