Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scorer. . . . My mind is set on winning a national golf championship. . . . I can outdrive most women golfers now. . . . I like all sports because I enjoy running, jumping and throwing things. Diversion? It's sewing. Yeh, boy, I design my own clothes, then they're made the way I want 'em...
Meanwhile hot-headed veterans had seeped back into their old quarters to tussle with police amid the rubble. Officers George Shinault and Miles Zamanezck were cornered on the second floor. "Let's get 'em!" someone shouted. The two policemen pulled their revolvers. A half dozen shots banged out. William Hushka keeled over with a bullet in his heart (1:25 p. m.). Two other veterans were wounded.* One of them, Eric Carlson, 38, of Oakland. CaL, died later...
...home, who felt "very bitter" about the Battle of Washington. Major L. J. H. Herwig, U. S. A., retired, of Washington, offered them his 400-acre Virginia farm. On these plots Commander Waters proposed to establish "Khaki Shirts" colonies, warned: "If they try to burn us out again, damn 'em we'll kill 'em." Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired, flirted with the idea of consolidating the "Khaki Shirts...
...This is the first time in more than 20 years I've made an electioneering speech. Either the people of my district have a lot of confidence in me or I fooled 'em so well in my first campaign that they've sent me back every term since then. I want to convince every honest man and woman that the power of government should be taken away from those who administer it for the benefit of a privileged few. . . . Because I demanded that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. make public its use of the people's property, the President in effect...
...famed politician but by "John Martin," editor of John Martin's Book ("The Child's Magazine"); 3) it will not be addressed to parents, with advice on infant-raising, but to readers aged 5 to 8. Explained Publisher Delacorte: "It's supposed to entertain them, not make 'em eat spinach...