Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys, County Judge Harry S. Truman. His only obstacle in putting Harry in the Senate was the way stand-pat Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre. On the eve of election an inconsiderate grand jury indicted three Pendergast henchmen. The charge was perjury: two of them had denied under oath telling two detectives to "lay off this Union Station case," the third, a police lieutenant, swore he had not told county prosecutors that his first duty was not to Kansas City...
...wrote Herbert Hoover in Palo Alto to New Jersey Republicans on the eve of last week's election. Next day the nation which two years ago overwhelmingly ousted the 31st President from the White House rejected Mr. Hoover's political advice with even greater emphasis and whittled the Republican opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete...
...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...
Coach Eddie Casey, on the eve of the battle, substituted Frank Schumann and Bob Watson for Bob Brookings and Mike Adlis respectively in the Crimson line. Gundlach is the only other representative of the graduating class who will grace the Harvard team at the whistle today...
Lest this occur, on the eve of the court's convening. President Roosevelt passed it a broad and hopeful hint when in his sixth "fireside" radio talk he recalled: "The great Chief Justice White said: 'There is great danger, it seems to me, to arise from the constant habit which prevails where anything is opposed or objected to of referring without rhyme or reason to the Constitution as a means of preventing its accomplishment, thus creating the general impression that the Constitution is but a barrier to progress instead of being the broad highway through which alone true...