Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator from New York, he could well visualize what might happen to the topless towers of Manhattan if enemy bombers ever laid eggs among them. Inland Senators were apathetic, but other coast Senators agreed. He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went into the army's 1938 appropriation specifically earmarked for antiaircraft, and the army was authorized to contract...
Last week. Bob Bradford invaded Incumbent Bishop's home town of Wayland, flayed him for personally trying only 19 cases in eight years, for dismissing without prosecution 3,396 cases, including a male degenerate's confessed sex crime against a 12-year-old girl. With ample financial support to fight Mr. Bishop's local machine, Bob Bradford was given a better-than-even chance of winning, and Republican nomination in Middlesex is tantamount to election...
...Soviet troops to pass over its territory to Czechoslovakia. Since German absorption of Austria, however, Dictator King Carol of Rumania has become friendlier to the Soviet Union, less friendly to Germany. Last week, in Geneva, while the League of Nations Council held a speedy six-minute meeting in which eight non-controversial reports were adopted prior to the convening this week of the League Assembly, Rumanian and Soviet League delegations allowed the fact to leak out that Commissar Litvinoff and Rumanian Foreign Minister Petrescu-Comnen were discussing the passage of Soviet planes and troops over and through Rumania in case...
...News, in which such frankly biased stories appear, is an eight-page weekly, founded last December as the official organ of the C. I. O. Price: 3? per copy, $1 per year, reductions for block subscriptions and bundle orders. Last week the circulation of the C. I. 0. News skyrocketed from 125,000 to 700,000 when John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America entered subscriptions for all its members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed...
...usual slam-bang game), the teamwork of the Greentree side faded under the brilliant strategy of Old Westbury's Stewart Iglehart and the aggressive, precise team play of his mates. From the fourth chukker on, they peppered the Greentree goal-Mike Phipps scoring six times, Cecil Smith eight, Stewart Iglehart two-in a display of well-balanced polo that has seldom been matched anywhere. Greentree, conspicuously outmounted but making exciting play of it until the final gong, scored only seven goals. Experts wondered whether, in the rich kingdom of polo, the great Tommy Hitchcock might soon be dethroned...