Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
Mayor T. Frank Hayes is a Democrat, one of the biggest and boldest ever seen in Connecticut. His arrest, along with his controller, Daniel J. Leary, his secretary, Thomas P. Kelley, and several other Waterbury officials, resulted from Mr. Leary's failure (by 33 votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost...
...were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...
...Poland recognized Lithuania's claim to Vilna in the presence of a League commission in 1920, two days later seized the city, has held it ever since...
...Ever since he became president, Dr. Robinson had been in hot water with his students and faculty. He quarreled with Philosopher Morris Cohen, with Morris Cohen's son Felix. (Disliking Undergraduate Felix's editorials, Dr. Robinson tried vainly to keep him out of Phi Beta Kappa.) He suppressed student magazines and meetings, once belabored a dozen booing undergraduates with his umbrella...