Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of Secretary Carr's well-connected attorneys, Colorado's Democratic House impeached him by a smash vote of 48-10-15. Promptly Mr. Carr underwent two minor operations connected with a blood clot on his lung. On the eve of the Colorado Senate's assembling to try the impeachment, Lawyer Dickerson marched into Governor Johnson's office and laid down Mr. Carr's resignation. Next morning George Saunders, 35, crook-hating sheriff of Larimer County, marched into the Secretary of State's office and, by appointment of Governor Johnson, took over...
...Grand Council of Fascism, united on the eve of the application of so-called sanctions, regards the date Nov. 18, 1935 as a day of ignominy and iniquity in the history of the world. . . . The Grand Council orders each city and town council of Italy to erect a slab to record the Economic Siege, so that it will remain throughout the centuries as a documentation of the enormous injustice perpetrated against Italy, which has contributed so much to the civilization of all continents. . . . The Grand Council acclaims its enthusiasm in Il Duce, who realizes the supreme right of the nation...
...eve of the British General Election fell last week Egypt's so-called Independence Day, anniversary of the day in 1918 when "Egypt's violent Gandhi," the late great Zaghlul Pasha, demanded Egyptian independence at the British Residency in Cairo. Zaghlul's successor is bulky, big-voiced Wafdist Chief Mustafa Nahas Pasha. He has been telling Premier Nessim, that even if the Premier is obliged to let the British fill Egypt with anti-Italian arms, he ought to demand in exchange concessions that will take Egypt a little nearer real independence. Last week the potent Wafd learned...
Continuing an old custom of giving a program together on the eve of the Yale game, the clubs will sing tonight under the direction of Marshall Bartholomew of Yale and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music...
...felt some of the boys would blow the whistle. But somebody got in their work a little too soon." Without Key to stop, Southern Methodist rode into Los Angeles last week, rode out with a 21-to-0 victory over depleted U. C. L. A. On the eve of the homecoming game at Iowa City between Iowa and Minnesota, Governor Clyde La Verne Herring was said to have announced that his fellow citizens "would not permit any undue rough treatment" of Negro Oze Simmons, fleet Iowa halfback. Infuriated, the Minnesota team held its pre-game workout in Illinois guarded...