Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people did not like to see the government exercise too much power over their business affairs. For eight years he held his post; then he was dismissed from office and died in disgrace...
...State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine...
Last week, bluff, ruddy Leader Hines (having complained that New York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933, had followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor...
Japanese have nominally occupied all Hopeh for eight months, its eastern quarter for nearly three years. General Lu's description of conditions behind the Japanese lines, allowing for natural partisan distortion, was the more significant because the Japanese are now apparently reducing their forces in that area in order to send reinforcements to the threatened Manchukuoan border (see col. 1). He said: "Our central Hopeh forces now control 8,000 square miles of territory-about the size of Massachusetts-sandwiched between the railways south of Peiping and Tientsin...
Ohio has given the U. S. seven Presidents. Only one State-Virginia, with eight-has done better. Ohio has 37 colleges. Only two States have more-Pennsylvania with 59. New York with...