Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went back to Missouri to run the campaign, earned a smashing triumph when the State returned record Democratic majorities for both national and State tickets. Last week in Kansas City, appearing at his offices...
Business head most responsible for making this stock worth something was that of Roy Harold Robichaud, a door-to-door circulation solicitor before the Star fell, who was elected president by his associates to head the six-man. Board of Directors which is made up of the paper's department heads. Editor who made the News-Herald well liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily...
...when their sponsors owed $1,600 in back salaries, local businessmen formed a corporation to finance the team. The Packers repaid their benefactors by attracting as many as 15,000 spectators to a single Green Bay game. In 1934, the team had financial difficulties again. A spectator fell off the grandstand and was awarded $5,500 damages. The mutual company with which the Packers were insured went into bankruptcy during the trial. The bankruptcy put the Packers' debt up to $10,000. Green Bay citizens then subscribed $13,000 to keep the team going...
...unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company the next night in singing that international smut champion. Here is the Story of the Captain's Wife, which proceeds through an unspeakable catalog of that exceptionally ill-favored lady...
...assistance made Shaw feel as though he had given "a penny to a millionaire who has bought a newspaper and found his pockets empty." Spending much time in Morris' home, where the only social drawbacks were Shaw's vegetarianism and Mrs. Morris' aloof silences, Shaw soon fell in love with Morris' beautiful daughter, May. The equally beautiful, stately and cool...