Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...
Previous to Murphy's feat, Weston's double had scored two men brining the score within reaching distance of a Lowell victory. The crowd was tense as Murphy stepped to the plate; even the Deacon and Bellboy stands were silent. Gilbert the king snake, Lowell mascot, nervously shed half his skin as two strikes were called. Then, contradicting the Casey legend, Murphy connected, and the Straus trophy was cinched...
Completely proved at the outset was the fact that GHQ A. F. could assemble a scattered force at unfamiliar airports within a minimum of time. Most spectacular feat in this phase was the transcontinental movement of 945 men. 42 planes, by Brigadier General Delos C. Emmons' First Wing, normally based at March and Hamilton Fields, Calif. Brash, toughly amiable General Emmons, whom many of his comrades look upon as a likely successor to Commanding General Andrews when the latter retires, transformed 16 Douglas bombers into transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent...
...unsafe. At Taiping, between Nanking and Wuhu, Chinese bands infiltrated into the city and fought the small Japanese garrison in the streets. Just north of Shanghai, almost due east of Nanking, at Tungchow, the none-too-modest Japanese communiques claimed their only major success of the week-the de-feat of 10,000 Chinese attempting to cut off this important base from other Japanese-controlled points...
Underwriting. SEC last week announced that registration of new securities in the first quarter of 1938 set a three-year low of $355,819,000. In Wall Street it was considered quite a feat that a banking syndicate headed by Morgan Stanley & Co. managed to float successfully a $60,000,000 refunding for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York. Thus underscored still again was the almost complete stagnation of U. S. money markets which has existed for the last six months. Financiers are agreed that needed expansion of industry cannot occur until this stagnation is ended. But underwriters generally...