Word: errand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving one evening from his office in the Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving...
...give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja abandoned her errand, deceived...
...held every Monday. Wednesday, and Friday evening at 7.30. New candidates are welcome to drop in at one of these meetings, any time during the year, to find out about the kind of work that interests them. There is no danger of getting in for a long grind of errand-running and desk-sitting that takes every spare moment. Each man sets his own pace and does work of his own choosing. Members of the board help all they...
...quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York, had extraordinary priestly duties to perform. Clothed with vast and holy power, attended in proud dignity by a princely retinue, the Archbishop of New York set forth on an errand imposed upon him last month by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Symbolically dispatched from the Pope's side and armed with all that Pontiff's authority and precedence. Cardinal Hayes was Legatus a latere to the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress, held this week in Cleveland...
...join France, Russia and Italy in any harsh, concerted effort to make him toe dotted lines on which Germany has signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce demands, gets. Considering that words are not enough to impress Hitler, Mussolini this week treated Nazidom to the spectacle of an Italian mobilization. Not calling it by that name, II Duce sent pink mobilization cards out in quantities sufficient...