Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...
...terms of the call gerrymandered it against him. So he issued his own call for a convention and suspended 15 board members including Messrs. Frankensteen. Mortimer and potent little Walter Reuther of Detroit. They retaliated by impeaching him. He caught them napping. Early one morning he and a dozen huskies marched into U. A. W. headquarters, seized the union records and bank books, locked the offices, transferred everything to Mr. Martin's suite in the Eddystone Hotel...
...same hour, nearly a dozen other explosions blasted England, most of them at power stations, gas works, water reservoirs and public buildings. Police who rushed to the spots had no trouble figuring out the cause. A number of unexploded home-made bombs were found. They had been made from batteries, alarm clocks and gelignite, a gelatin dynamite or "safe" explosive favored by British safecrackers...
...pointed out by Nelson Miles '40, who gave the petition to Durant. That the change was felt desirable by many residents who were not directly affected was shown by the fact that approximately 180 of the signers did not have cars. It was estimated that all but a dozen car owners in the two houses signed...
Eddie Cantor (Sun. 11 p. m. CBS, MBS, NBC-Blue), leads the March of Dimes to the assistance of the Warn Springs Foundation. Celebrities by the dozen...