Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rawboned, ugly "Tony" Biddle went to St. Paul's School where, like his father, he ably mixed Christianity and athletics. He did not go to college. Instead, in 1915, aged 18, he married Mary Duke, who eventually fell heir to the millions of her father, Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular...
...stopped work relief in rural areas. Nebraska prepared to suspend relief allotments to 26 counties, halve them in 15 others. Missouri halted work projects employing 50,000 persons. Michigan cut 46,000 names off its relief rolls. One by one Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi fell into line...
Ever since they fell into goose-step behind Adolf Hitler millions of Germans have been waiting for what Der Führer calls "the occult forces of World Jewry" to be exposed in "their citadel, New York." Last week came what Nazis took to be the long-awaited break. For what seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies...
...price. Profoundly influenced by Niccolo Machiavelli, the great Florentine who understood Italians better than anyone else, Dictator Mussolini considers that in an hour when all investments are bad, the best is to speculate on a program of conquest or, better still, obtain Ethiopia by intimidation. No leader ever fell and no people ever revolted or were basically unhappy, Il Duce feels, while they were expanding their frontiers...
...Vienna childbirth which an eminent surgeon last week feared might put him in jail began when the woman, her features twitching, yelped and fell into an eclamptic fit. Her whole body became rigid. She clenched her teeth, stopped breathing. Her face turned dusky red. For more than a minute she lay like that. Then, after a few minutes of spasmodic limb-yanking and body-jerking, she relaxed into a deathly coma...